Title Black woman reformer : Ida B. Wells, lynching, and transatlantic activism / Sarah L. Silkey

Published Athens, GA : The University of Georgia Press, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource Contents British responses to American lynching -- The emergence of a transatlantic reformer -- The struggle for legitimacy -- Building a transatlantic debate on lynching -- American responses to British protest -- A transatlantic legacy Summary During the early 1890s, a series of shocking lynchings brought unprecedented international attention to racially motivated American mob violence. This interest created an opportunity for Ida B. Wells, an African American journalist and civil rights activist from Memphis, to travel to England to cultivate British moral indignation against American lynching. Wells adapted race and gender roles established by African American abolitionists in Britain to legitimate her activism as a "black lady reformer"--A role American society denied her - and to assert her right to defend her race from abroad. This book explores Wells's 1893-94 antilynching campaigns within the broader contexts of nineteenth-century transatlantic reform networks and debates about the role of extralegal violence in American society. Through her speaking engagements, newspaper interviews, and the efforts of her British allies, Wells altered the framework of public debates of lynching in both Britain and the United States. As British criticism of lynching mounted, southern political leaders desperate to maintain positive relations with voters choose weather to publicly defend or decry lynching. Although British moral pressure and media attention did not end lynching, the international scrutiny generated by Wells's campaigns transformed our understanding of racial violence and made American communities increasingly reluctant to embrace lynching.--adapted from dust jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931 -- Travel SUBJECT Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931 -- Travels Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931 fast Subject African American women -- Biography African American women civil rights workers -- Biography African American women social reformers -- Biography Lynching -- United States -- Foreign public opinion, British Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography Social reformers -- United States -- Biography Public opinion -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civil Rights. African American women African American women civil rights workers African American women social reformers Civil rights workers Public opinion Social reformers Travel Great Britain United States Genre/Form collective biographies. Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780820346922 0820346926 1322949352 9781322949352 0820353787 9780820353784

Other Titles Ida B. Wells, lynching, and transatlantic activism

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