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Ida B. Wells-Barnett

(Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931)

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• Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931: The Arkansas Race Riot (Chicago: Ida B. Wells-Barnett, 1920) (illustrated HTML at NIU)
• Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931: The East St. Louis Massacre: The Greatest Outrage of the Century (Chicago: The Negro Fellowship Herald Press, 1917) (illustrated HTML at NIU)
• Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931: Lynch Law in Georgia (Chicago: Chicago Colored Citizens, 1899), contrib. by Louis P. Le Vin
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at NIU
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931, contrib.: Lynching and Rape: An Exchange of Views (occasional paper #25, revised; New York: American Institute for Marxist Studies, c1982), ed. by Bettina Aptheker, also contrib. by Jane Addams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931: Mob Rule in New Orleans: Robert Charles and His Fight to Death; The Story of His Life; Burning Human Beings Alive; Other Lynching Statistics (1900) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931: The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World's Columbian Exposition: The Afro-American's Contribution to Columbian Literature (Chicago: Ida B. Wells, 1893), contrib. by Frederick Douglass, I. Garland Penn, and F. I. Barnett (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931: The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings in the United States (reprint of 1895 pamphlet), contrib. by Frederick Douglass (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931: A Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings in the United States, 1892-1893-1894, Respectfully Submitted to the Nineteenth Century Civilization in 'the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave' (Chicago: Donohue and Henneberry, 1895), contrib. by Frederick Douglass (illustrated HTML at NIU)
• Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931: Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (originally published 1892), contrib. by Frederick Douglass (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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