Crusade for Justice


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The NAACP co-founder, civil rights activist, educator, and journalist recounts her public and private life in this classic memoir. Born to enslaved parents, Ida B. Wells was a pioneer of investigative journalism, a crusader against lynching, and a tireless advocate for suffrage, both for women and for African Americans. She co-founded the NAACP, started the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago, and was a leader in the early civil rights movement, working alongside W. E. B. Du Bois, Madam C. J. Walker, Mary Church Terrell, Frederick Douglass, and Susan B. Anthony. This engaging memoir, originally published 1970, relates Wells’s private life as a mother as well as her public activities as a teacher, lecturer, and journalist in her fight for equality and justice. This updated edition includes a new foreword by Eve L. Ewing, new images, and a new afterword by Ida B. Wells’s great-granddaughter, Michelle Duster. “No student of black history should overlook Crusade for Justice.” —William M. Tuttle, Jr., Journal of American History




Collected Works of Ida B. Wells Barnett


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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.







Memoirs of a Revolutionist


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Selected Works of Ida B. Wells-Barnett


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Four of Ida B. Wells-Barnett's moving anti-lynching essays are presented in this volume. Written during the height of the lynching craze at the turn of the century, they elegantly speak to the pain and loss caused by racist thought and action.




The Complete Works of Frederick Douglass


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This meticulously edited collection has been formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Memoirs: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave My Bondage and My Freedom Life and Times of Frederick Douglass Writings & Speeches: The Heroic Slave My Escape from Slavery What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? Self-Made Men The Church and Prejudice The Color Line The Future of the Colored Race Abolition Fanaticism in New York An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln Reconstruction John Brown: An Address at the 14th Anniversary of Storer College The Claims of Our Common Cause The End of All Compromises with Slavery – Now and Forever The Kansas-Nebraska Bill The Dred Scott Decision Farewell Speech to the British People Comments on Gerrit Smith's Address Change of Opinion Announced Colonization Henry Clay and Slavery The Free Negro's Place Is In America Horace Greeley and Colonization The Fugitive Slave Law, The Revolution of 1848 West India Emancipation The Chicago Nomination The Late Election The Union and How to Save It Sudden Revolution in Northern Sentiment How to End the War Cast off the Millstone The Reasons for Our Troubles The War and How to End It What shall be Done with the Slaves if Emancipated The President and His Speeches Emancipation Proclaimed Men of Color, To Arms! Why Should a Colored Man Enlist? Our Work Is Not Done The Work of the Future What the Black Man Wants Give Us the Freedom Intended for Us A Call to Work The Word White The Hypocrisy of American Slavery Introduction to "The Reason Why" Reply of the Colored Delegation to the President Letter to Harriet Beecher Stowe Letter to Miss Wells Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York.




Before the Mayflower


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This book grew out of a series of articles which were published originally in Ebony magazine. The book, like the series, deals with the trials and triumphs of a group of Americans whose roots in the American soil are deeper than those of the Puritans who arrived on the celebrated “Mayflower” a year after a “Dutch man of war” deposited twenty Negroes at Jamestown. This is a history of “the other Americans” and how they came to North America and what happened to them when they got here. The story begins in Africa with the great empires of the Sudan and Nile Valley and ends with the Second Reconstruction which Martin Luther King, Jr., and the “sit-in” generation are fashioning in the North and South. The story deals with the rise and growth of slavery and segregation and the continuing efforts of Negro Americans to answer the question of the Jewish poet of captivity: “How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?” This history is founded on the work of scholars and specialists and is designed for the average reader. It is not, strictly speaking, a book for scholars; but it is as scholarly as fourteen months of research could make it. Readers who would like to follow the story in greater detail are urged to read each chapter in connection with the outline of Negro history in the appendix.




Phantasmagoria


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Today, Lewis Carroll is best remembered as a writer of juvenile fiction responsible for such timeless works as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. However, Carroll was also a poet who wove dark visions and supernatural themes into his substantial body of work. Much of the verse collected in Phantasmagoria and Other Poems has a supernatural or visionary theme. A must-read for fans of Victorian ghost stories.




Frederick Douglass: Collected Works


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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this meticulously edited collection of the greatest works by Frederick Douglass: Memoirs:_x000D_ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave_x000D_ My Bondage and My Freedom_x000D_ Life and Times of Frederick Douglass_x000D_ Writings & Speeches:_x000D_ The Heroic Slave_x000D_ My Escape from Slavery_x000D_ What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?_x000D_ Self-Made Men_x000D_ The Church and Prejudice_x000D_ The Color Line_x000D_ The Future of the Colored Race_x000D_ Abolition Fanaticism in New York_x000D_ An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage_x000D_ Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln_x000D_ Reconstruction_x000D_ John Brown: An Address at the 14th Anniversary of Storer College_x000D_ The Claims of Our Common Cause_x000D_ The End of All Compromises with Slavery – Now and Forever_x000D_ The Kansas-Nebraska Bill_x000D_ The Dred Scott Decision_x000D_ Farewell Speech to the British People_x000D_ Comments on Gerrit Smith's Address_x000D_ Change of Opinion Announced_x000D_ Colonization_x000D_ Henry Clay and Slavery_x000D_ The Free Negro's Place Is In America_x000D_ Horace Greeley and Colonization_x000D_ The Fugitive Slave Law,_x000D_ The Revolution of 1848_x000D_ West India Emancipation_x000D_ The Chicago Nomination_x000D_ The Late Election_x000D_ The Union and How to Save It_x000D_ Sudden Revolution in Northern Sentiment_x000D_ How to End the War_x000D_ Cast off the Millstone_x000D_ The Reasons for Our Troubles_x000D_ The War and How to End It_x000D_ What shall be Done with the Slaves if Emancipated_x000D_ The President and His Speeches_x000D_ Emancipation Proclaimed_x000D_ Men of Color, To Arms!_x000D_ Why Should a Colored Man Enlist?_x000D_ Our Work Is Not Done_x000D_ The Work of the Future_x000D_ What the Black Man Wants_x000D_ Give Us the Freedom Intended for Us_x000D_ A Call to Work_x000D_ The Word "White"_x000D_ The Hypocrisy of American Slavery_x000D_ Introduction to The Reason Why_x000D_ Reply of the Colored Delegation to the President_x000D_ Letter to Harriet Beecher Stowe_x000D_ Letter to Miss Wells_x000D_ Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York.