1st Edition
Eradicating this Evil Women in the American Anti-Lynching Movement, 1892-1940
By Mary Jane Brown
Copyright 2000
368 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
Rather than discussing one aspect of women's anti-lynching activism, this book examines the subject in its entirety, from the 1890s to 1940s. It also discusses how differing goals and perceptions of the problem led to conflict within the movement. In the last decade of the nineteenth century, black women began a protest against lynching that eventually swelled into a sizable movement. Ida B.... Read more
Acknowledgments, Chapter 1 Introduction, Chapter 2 Myths and Antecedents, Chapter 3 The Early Years, Chapter 4 Beginnings, Chapter 5 The Campaign for the Dyer Bill, Chapter 6 An Expanded Front, Chapter 7 Renewing the Campaign, Chapter 8 Dimming Hopes, Chapter 9 Conclusion, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Mary Jane Brown
"Brown attempts to illuminate the pivotal, usually neglected part women played in influencing opinion and educating Americans to the crisis of lynching, and she points out the undeniable impact activists on the decline of lynching." -- M. Klatte, Eastern Kentucky University
