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Jim Crow, Lynching, and African American Feminism


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    Front Matter
  • Discrimination in Public Transportation
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      “An  Appeal  to  the  White  Christian Women of the Southland,” The Colored American Magazine (January–February 1902): pp. 251–252. By Miss Nannie H. Burroughs
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      “Extracts from a letter…,” The Liberator 23 April 1858. By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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      197
      “Outrage Upon Colored Persons,” New York Tribune 19 July 1854. By Elizabeth J. Jennings
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      198
      “The Right of Colored Persons to Ride in the Railway Cars,” Pacific Appeal 16 May 1863. By Elizabeth J. Jennings
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      “To the Editor of the Liberator,” The Liberator 5 April 1834. By Susan Paul
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      “Another Brutal Outrage,” The Liberator 17 September 1841. By Nancy Prince
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      “Slavery Still at its Dirty Work,” The Liberator 20 January 1860. By Sarah Parker Remond
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      “American Meanness in England,” National Anti-Slavery Standard 28 January 1860. By Sarah Parker Remond
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      203
      “Disabilities of American Persons of Color,” The Liberator 17 February 1860. By Sarah Parker Remond
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      204
      “Separate Car Law,” Woman’s Era 2(10) (February 1896): p. 9. By Margaret Murray Washington
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      “The Jim Crow Car,” The New York Age 8 August 1891. By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
  • Lynching
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      206
      “A Distinguished Woman Honored,” American Citizen 21 October 1892.
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      “A  Few  Words  About  Lynching,” Alexander’s Magazine 5(4) (February 1908): pp. 93–94. By F. M. W. Alexander
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      “The Direct Cause and Remedy for Lynching,” in “The Northeastern Federation of Women’s Clubs,” Alexander’s Magazine 6(5) (September 1908): pp. 228–232. By F. M. W. Alexander
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      “The Anti-Lynching Crusaders,” The Crisis (November 1922): p. 8.
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      210
      “Resolutions Passed by the English Anti-Lynching Committee,” Woman’s Era 2(7) (November 1895): p. 5. By Florence Balgarnie
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      211
      “The Bitter Cry of Black America. A New ‘Uncle-Tom’s Cabin,’” Westminster Gazette 10 May 1894.
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      212
      “Duty to Dependent Races,” Transactions of the National Council of Women of the United States, Assembled in Washington, D.C., February 22 to 25, 1891, ed. Rachel Foster Avery. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1891, pp. 86–91. By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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      213
      “Famous Women of the Negro Race,” The Colored American Magazine (March 1902): pp. 276–280. By Pauline E. Nopkins
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      214
      “Miss Wells In Scotland,” Parson’s Weekly Blade 27 May 1893: p. 2.
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      “Our Woman’s Department…At Homestead the Negro got a chance in the Carnegie Mills…,” Indianapolis World 27 August 1892. By N. F. Mossell
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      “The Ninth Crusade,” The Crisis (March 1923): pp. 213–217.
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      “An Open Letter to Mrs. Laura Ormiston Chant,” Woman’s Era 1(3) (June 1894): p. 6. By Florida Ruffin Ridley
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      218
      “How to Stop Lynching,” Woman’s Era 1(2) (May 1894): pp. 8–9. By Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
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      “. . . attention…is called to the open letter to Mrs. Chant,” Women’s Era 1(3) (June 1894): p. 9. By Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
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      “Apologists for Lynching,” Woman’s Era 1(3) (June 1894): p. 14. By Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
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      221
      “Great Britain’s Compliment to American Colored Women,” Women’s Era 1(5) (August 1894): p. 1. By Fannie Barrier Williams
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      “Miss Willard and the Colored People,” Woman’s Era 2(4) (July 1895): p. 12. By Fannie Barrier Williams
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      “Lady Somerset and Miss Willard Confess of Themselves Apologists for Lynching,” Woman’s Era 2(5) (August 1895): p. 17. By Fannie Barrier Williams
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      224
      “Lynching in the United States,” Woman’s Era 2(5) (August 1895): p. 17. By Fannie Barrier Williams
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      225
      “Sentiment Against Lynching,” Parson’s Weekly Blade 24 May 1894.
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      226
      “Lynching from a Negro’s Point of View,” North American Review 178 (1904): 853–868. By Mary Church Terrell
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      “Lines  to  Ida  B.  Wells,”  Christian Recorder 5 July 1894: p. 1. By Katherine D. Tillman
    • Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, New York: New York Age, 1892, 25pp. By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
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        Preface
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        Hon. Fred. Douglass’s Letter
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        I
        The Offense
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        II
        The Black and White of it
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        III
        The New Cry
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        IV
        The Malicious and Untruthful White Press
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        V
        The South’s Position
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        VI
        Self Help
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      229
      “Lynch Law in All its Phases,” Our Day 11(65) (May 1893): pp. 333–347. By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
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      230
      “Lynch Law,” The Reason Why The Colored American is not in the World’s Columbian Exposition, ed. Ida B. Wells, Chicago, 1893, pp. 25–39. By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
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      “The English Speak,” The Cleveland Gazette 16 June 1894: p. 1. By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
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      232
      “Dear Mrs. Ridley,” Woman’s Era 1(4) (July 1894): p. 4. By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
    • A Red Record. Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings in the United States, 1892–1893–1894, Chicago: Dono- hue and Henneberry, 1894, 101pp. By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
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        Preface
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        I
        The Case Stated
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        II
        Lynch Law Statistics
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        III
        Lynching Imbeciles
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        IV
        Lynching of Innocent Men
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        V
        Lynched. for anything or Nothing
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        VI
        History of some Cases of Rape
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        VII
        The Crusade Justified
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        VIII
        Miss Willard’s Attitude
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        IX
        Lynching Record for 1894
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        X
        The Remedy
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      Lynch Law in Georgia, Chicago: Chicago Colored Citizens, 1899, 18pp. By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
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      235
      “The Negro’s Case in Equity,” The Independent 26 April 1900: pp. 1010–1011. By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
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      236
      “To the Members of the Anti-Lynching Bureau,” 1 January 1902. By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
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      237
      “How Enfranchisement Stops Lynchings,” Original Rights Magazine (June 1910): pp. 42–53. By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
    • The Arkansas Race Riot, Chicago: Hume Job Print, 1920, 58pp. By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
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        The Elaine Riot
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        Their Crime
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        III
        The Riot
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        IV
        Their Case Stated
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        V
        What White Polks got from Riot
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        VI
        The Johnston Boys
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        VII
        The Trial
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        VIII
        Motion for a New Trial
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        IX
        The Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America
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        Summary and Contrast
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        XI
        The Arkansas Supreme Court Acts