Ida B. Wells a passion for justice

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Title:

Ida B. Wells a passion for justice

Author:

Greaves, William.

Publication Information:

San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1989.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (53 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 3/4 in.

Summary:

Chronicles the life of Ida B. Wells, an early Afro-American journalist and activist who protested lynchings, unfair treatment of Afro-American soldiers, and other forms of racism and injustice toward Black Americans around the turn of the century. Her involvement in the women's suffrage movement is also described.

General Note:

Originally broadcast as an episode of the television program The American experience.

Memoirs of Ida B. Wells read by Toni Morrison.

Language:

English

Personal Subject:

Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931.

Subject Term:

African American journalists -- Biography.

African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964.

African Americans -- Civil rights -- History.

African Americans -- Social conditions -- To 1964.