LibGuides: Virtual Displays: Ida B. Wells-Barnett & Susan B. Anthony

Ida B. Wells-Barnett & Susan B. Anthony are two notable figures when discussing women's suffrage and anti-slavery efforts; however, Wells-Barnett and Anthony were more than contemporaries, they were friends as well. In Well-Barnett's autobiography, she refers to Anthony as her "dear good friend" while retelling a conversation they had about efforts to organize a suffrage group (wttw). Their friendship was solidified enough that Wells-Barnett was able to call out Anthony for being misguided in some of her decisions regarding the suffrage efforts of Black women in the South. Yet, they were still able to work together to make advances for all women in America.

View the resources on this guide to learn more about how their efforts worked to help the women's suffrage movement across the country, especially in the South where tensions were heightened. These resources also look at anti-slavery efforts that were taken by the pair during this time period.

Black Woman Reformer by Sarah L. Silkey
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780820346922
Publication Date: 2015-02-15
During the early 1890s, a series of shocking lynchings brought unprecedented international attention to American mob violence. This interest created an opportunity for Ida B. Wells, an African American journalist and civil rights activist from Memphis, to travel to England to cultivate British moral indignation against American lynching. Wells adapted race and gender roles established by African American abolitionists in Britain to legitimate her activism as a "black lady reformer"-a role American society denied her-and assert her right to defend her race from abroad. Based on extensive archival research conducted in the United States and Britain, Black Woman Reformer by Sarah Silkey explores Wells's 1893-94 antilynching campaigns within the broader contexts of nineteenth-century transatlantic reform networks and debates about the role of extralegal violence in American society.
The Collected Works of Ida B. Wells-Barnett by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9783956702129
Publication Date: 2015
This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one eBook - easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, The Red Record by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mob Rule in New Orleans by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and more.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930 by Patricia A. Schechter
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780807875469
Publication Date: 2003-01-14
African American journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) is remembered mainly for her antilynching crusade in the 1890s. This work seeks to restore her to her central place in the early reform movements for civil rights, women's suffrage, and Progressivism in the United States and abroad.
Susan B. Anthony by Teri Kanefield
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781683354741
Publication Date: 2019-03-26
This biography for young readers examines the life of an American who advocated for women's rights and the abolishment of slavery. Susan B. Anthony was born into a world in which men ruled women. A man could beat his wife, take her earrings, have her committed to an asylum based on his word alone, and take her children away from her. While the young nation was ablaze with the radical notion that people could govern themselves, "people" were understood to be white and male. Women were expected to stay out of public life and debates. As Anthony saw the situation, "Women's subsistence is in the hands of men, and most arbitrarily and unjustly does he exercise his consequent power." She imagined a different world-one where women and people of color were treated with the same respect that white men were given.
Susan B. Anthony and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Christine L. Ridarsky (Editor); Mary M. Huth (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781580467872
Publication Date: 2012-12-01
Explores the diversity of thought and action in women's involvement in 19th-century reform movements. Though Susan B. Anthony is best remembered for leading the campaign for women's suffrage, she worked in multiple movements for equality beyond women's right to vote, including antislavery, Native American rights, temperance, and labor reform. In doing so she forged alliances with other activists to forward a broad social justice agenda, but she also faced opposition from these reformers on how best to achieve this goal.
The Trial of Susan B. Anthony by Martin Naparsteck
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781476617572
Publication Date: 2014-10-24
Following a public argument with her friend Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony altered her strategy of seeking a broad range of rights for women and blacks and focused exclusively on winning the vote for women. Defying state and federal law, she voted in the presidential election of 1872, and was arrested and tried in a case presided over by a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Ward Hunt, who directed the jury to deliver a guilty verdict. Fined $100, Anthony defiantly told the judge she would never pay--and never did. This is the story of the landmark trial that attracted worldwide attention and made Anthony into the iconic leader of the women's rights movement.
Why They Marched by Susan Ware
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780674240797
Publication Date: 2019-05-06
Looking beyond the national leadership of the suffrage movement, Susan Ware tells the inspiring story of nineteen dedicated women who carried the banner for the vote into communities across the nation, out of the spotlight, protesting, petitioning, and demonstrating for women's right to become full citizens.

American Protest Literature by Zoe Trodd (Editor); John Stauffer (Foreword by); Howard Zinn (Afterword by)
Call Number: 303.484 A512
ISBN: 9780674027633
Publication Date: 2008-04-30
"I like a little rebellion now and then"-so wrote Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, enlisting in a tradition that throughout American history has led writers to rage and reason, prophesy and provoke. This is the first anthology to collect and examine an American literature that holds the nation to its highest ideals, castigating it when it falls short and pointing the way to a better collective future. American Protest Literature presents sources from eleven protest movements-political, social, and cultural-from the Revolution to abolition to gay rights to antiwar protest. Each section reprints documents from the original phase of the movement as well as evidence of its legacy in later times. Informative headnotes place the selections in historical context and draw connections with other writings within the anthology and beyond. Sources include a wide variety of genres-pamphlets, letters, speeches, sermons, legal documents, poems, short stories, photographs, posters-and a range of voices from prophetic to outraged to sorrowful, from U.S. Presidents to the disenfranchised. Together they provide an enlightening and inspiring survey of this most American form of literature.
Dissent and Protest (1637-2016) by Salem Press
Call Number: 303.484 D613 v.1 & 2
ISBN: 9781682172896
Publication Date: 2017-06-30
Dissent & Protest studies crucial documents from various protests, dissents, revolts, riots, and revolutions throughout American history, from the American Revolution to the Black Lives Matter Movement of today. This text closely studies more than eighty primary source documents to deliver a thorough examination of issues so important to Americans that they took action, exercised their rights and stood up to protest.
Great Speeches by American Women by James Daley
Call Number: 815.08 G788
ISBN: 9780486461410
Publication Date: 2007-12-26
From civil rights to the right to vote, women have spoken up and spoken out throughout American history. Brimming with great power and eloquence, here are twenty-one legendary speeches from the country's most inspirational female voices, including Jane Addams, Emma Goldman, and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Spanning the centuries from 1851 to 2007, these are the rousing words that continue to endure in our nation's consciousness. This distinguished collection includes these American women and their speeches: Sojourner Truth, "Ain't I a Woman?" 1851; Susan B. Anthony, "On Behalf of the Woman Suffrage Amendment," 1880; Margaret Sanger, "A Moral Necessity of Birth Control," 1921; Mary McLeod Bethune, "A Century of Progress of Negro Women," 1933; Eleanor Roosevelt, "On the Adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights," 1948; Shirley Chisholm, "People and Peace, Not Profits and War," 1969; Geraldine Ferraro, "Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address," 1984; Gloria Steinem, "A Twenty-First Century Feminism," 2002; Nancy Pelosi, "Speech Upon Her Election as Speaker of the House," 2007, and many more unforgettable speeches by spirited and influential American women.
Seeking a Voice by David B. Sachsman (Editor); S. Kittrell Rushing (Editor); Roy Morris (Editor)
Call Number: 070.4493058 S452
ISBN: 9781557535054
Publication Date: 2009-07-30
This volume chronicles the media's role in reshaping American life during the tumultuous nineteenth century by focusing specifically on the presentation of race and gender in the newspapers and magazines of the time. The work is divided into four parts: Part I, 'Race Reporting', details the various ways in which America's racial minorities were portrayed; Part II, 'Fires of Discontent', looks at the moral and religious opposition to slavery by the abolitionist movement and demonstrates how that opposition was echoed by African Americans themselves; Part III, 'The Cult of True Womanhood', examines the often disparate ways in which American women were portrayed in the national media as they assumed a greater role in public and private life; and Part IV, 'Transcending the Boundaries', traces the lives of pioneering women journalists who sought to alter and expand their gender's participation in American life, showing how the changing role of women led to various journalistic attempts to depict and define women through sensationalistic news coverage of female crime stories.
Suffrage by Ellen Carol DuBois
Call Number: 305.420973 D815
ISBN: 9781501165160
Publication Date: 2020-02-25
Explores the full scope of the movement to win the vote for women through portraits of its leaders and activists, including Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Sojourner Truth, Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice Paul, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett.Honoring the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, this exciting history explores the full scope of the movement to win the vote for women through portraits of its bold leaders and devoted activists. Distinguished historian Ellen Carol DuBois begins in the pre-Civil War years with foremothers Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Sojourner Truth as she explores the links of the woman suffrage movement to the abolition of slavery.
To Tell the Truth Freely by Mia Bay
Call Number: 323.1196092 W453
ISBN: 9780809095292
Publication Date: 2009-02-17
Born to slaves in 1862, Ida B. Wells became a fearless antilynching crusader, women's rights advocate, and journalist. Wells's refusal to accept any compromise on racial inequality caused her to be labeled a "dangerous radical" in her day but made her a model for later civil rights activists as well as a powerful witness to the troubled racial politics of her era. In the richly illustrated To Tell the Truth Freely, the historian Mia Bay vividly captures Wells's legacy and life, from her childhood in Mississippi to her early career in late nineteenth-century Memphis and her later life in Progressive-era Chicago.

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Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony: Failure is Impossible

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