books about: anti-lynching (legislation apologizing resolution)

books about: anti-lynching

books:

KU KLUX KLAN: An entry from Thomson Gale's West's Encyclopedia of American Law

Thomson Gale, 2005

“West's Encyclopedia of American Law” is 13 volumes and 5,000 entries of comprehensive information on the fascinating American Legal System and its components. Covering historical and current terms, concepts, events, movements, cases, and persons significant to U.S law, West’s has been written, updated, and reviewed by lawyers and professors with the everyday user in mind. Everyone from the layperson hooked on the weekly TV ...

Southern Horrors and Other Writings; The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900

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Ida B. Wells

Bedford/St. Martin's, 1996

Raw But Real American History
Mrs. Ida B. Wells-Barnett should be as well known as Soujourner Truth or Rosa Parks. This was one revolutionary heroine! She was run out of Memphis for writing boldly about lynchings in the 1890s. She also did an in-depth study on lynching called "A Red Record" (included here) that told the truth about this practice on a national level. Another excellent segemnt teels the forgotten true tale of ...

Senate passes a resolution apologizing for failure to pass anti-lynching legislation.(NATIONAL REPORT): An ...

Thomson Gale, 2005

This digital document is an article from Jet, published by Thomson Gale on July 4, 2005. The length of the article is 579 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Senate passes a resolution apologizing for failure to pass ...

Men, Mobs, and Law: Anti-lynching and Labor Defense in U.S. Radical History
Rebecca N. Hill

Duke University Press, 2009

In Men, Mobs, and Law, Rebecca N. Hill compares two seemingly unrelated types of left protest campaigns: those intended to defend labor organizers from prosecution and those seeking to memorialize lynching victims and stop the practice of lynching. Arguing that these forms of protest are related and have substantially influenced one another, Hill points out that both worked to build alliances primarily through appeals to public opinion in the ...

Eradicating this Evil: Women in the American Anti-Lynching Movement, 1892-1940 (Studies in African American ...
Mary Jane Brown

Routledge, 2000

Rather than discussing one aspect of women's anti-lynching activism, this book examines the subject in its entirety, from the 1890s to 1940s. It also discusses how differing goals and perceptions of the problem led to conflict within the movement. In the last decade of the nineteenth century, black women began a protest against lynching that eventually swelled into a sizable movement. Ida B. Wells, one of the fist anti-lynching advocates, ...