Canon Configuration for Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8388167 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Melba Joyce Boyd (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 8-12 |
| Publication date | 1994-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Black Scholar (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0006-4246 • E-ISSN: 2162-5387 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00064246.1994.11413116 |
| OpenAlex | W2244906689 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
hundred and one years ago, the World's Congress of Representative Women, a black women's organization, was founded in order for black Americans to levy some representation at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. As a response to another blatant act of racial discrimination, F.L. Barnett, J. Garland Penn, Frederick Douglass, and Ida B. Wells wrote and published The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in The Worlds Columbian Exposition. The introduction was translated into French and German, and the pamphlet was distributed to patrons of the exposition. Lynch Law by Ida B. Wells was included in the pamphlet, an essay that explains the racist psychology of American society, as it details the horrors and provides the statistics that amplify this national shame. In her condemnation of the media's complicity with the perpetrators, she asserts
Aesthetics · Canon · Computer Science · Geology · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2013 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |