Table of Contents
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ........................................... 1
CHAPTER ONE: A Post-Civil War Life of Hope, Destroyed by Plague; Parents and an
Adolescence Stolen........................................... 9
CHAPTER TWO: Miss Ida B. Wells, The Schoolteacher Who Fought on a Train ......... 15
CHAPTER THREE: The Shaping of Black America: Ida B. Wells, the Black Press and
Free Speech in Post-reconstruction Memphis ..............23
CHAPTER FOUR: Knotted Rope: Wells’ Campaigns Against Lynching....................... 43
CHAPTER FIVE: The ‘Princess Of The Press’ Becomes a Feted Clubwoman........................ 79
CHAPTER SIX: Ida’s Alphabet: NAACP, NACW, NFL, NERL ...................................... 89
CHAPTER SEVEN: Family Time .............. 103
CHAPTER EIGHT: Sexism in the Movement: Wells-Barnett Fights Black Female
Invisibilty..................................................... 111
CHAPTER NINE: The Complicated Relationship Between Wells-Barnett and
White Feminism........................................... 121
CHAPTER TEN: An Elder in the 20th Century Black Freedom Movement........................... 137
CODA: A Nation of Leading Black Female Voices ........................................................... 147
BIBLIOGRAPHY ........................................ 181
