Web Links
Publication: Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, 1892.
Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14975/14975-h/14975-h.htm
Speech: Ida B. Wells, “Lynch Law in All Its Phases,” given at Tremont Temple in the Boston Monday Lectureship, February 13, 1893.
Link: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/ead/pdf/ibwells-0008-008-02.pdf
Credit: Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
Website: Ida B. Wells: Illinois during the Gilded Age, 1866–1896. Illinois Historical Digitized Projects. This website includes a detailed biography and video clips of historian Patricia Schecheter discussing and analyzing various aspects of Wells’ career.
Website: “The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow.” This is the website for the PBS television series featuring information about Jim Crow Laws and information about Wells-Barnett, including links to historical documents and a video from the program.
Newspaper article: Ida B. Wells, “Lynch Law in the United States: to the Editor of the Daily Post,” Birmingham Daily Post, May 14, 1894.
Link: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/ead/pdf/ibwells-0008-008-04.pdf
Credit: Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
Publication: Ida B. Wells, et al. The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893.
Link: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/wells/exposition/exposition.html
Newspaper Article: The Ladies Pictorial, an English publication, discussing Wells’ trip to England, May, 1893.
Link: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/ead/pdf/ibwells-0008-010-01.pdf
Credit: Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
Newspaper article: “A Darky Damsel Obtains a Verdict for Damages Against the Chesapeake And Ohio Railroad,” Memphis Appeal-Avalanche, December 25, 1884.
Link: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/ead/pdf/ibwells-0008-011-01.pdf
Credit: Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
Letter: Ida B. Wells, letter to daughters Ida and Alfreda, dated October 30, 1920
Link: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/ead/pdf/ibwells-0008-009-09.pdf
Credit: Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
Website: Full text of Wells’ speech to the NAACP in 1909, “This Awful Slaughter”.
Link: http://www.blackpast.org/1909-ida-b-wells-awful-slaughter
Website: Book excerpt from Ida B. Wells-Barnett, The East St. Louis Massacre: The Greatest Outrage of the Century. (Chicago: The Negro Fellowship Herald Press, 1917), Chapter 1.
Link: http://gildedage.lib.niu.edu/islandora/object/niu-gildedage%3A24051
Newspaper Articles: Ida B. Wells, “The Reign of Mob Law: Iola’s Opinion of Doings in the Southern Field,” New York Age, February 18, 1893, combined with “The Lynchers Wince,” New York Age, September 19, 1891.
Link: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/ead/pdf/ibwells-0008-008-03.pdf
Credit: Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
Website: Comic on Ida B. Wells from “Hark, A Vagrant!” depicts several key moments of Wells-Barnett’s life, including her run for senate.
Website: NPS: We Shall Overcome: Ida B. Wells-Barnett House, includes an overview of her life and photograph of her house at 3624 S. Martin Luther King Drive in Chicago, Illinois.