Black Press: Soldiers without Swords
The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords
PBS has a website to accompany its 1998 documentary, The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords. It includes biographies, a timeline, a film transcript and other resources. Go to: http://www.pbs.org/blackpress/.
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a crusader against lynching and racism, a staunch advocate for women's rights, a fearless journalist and a founder of the NAACP. During her lifetime, she was the owner of two publications, Memphis Free Speech and Headlight, and the Free Speech, and she wrote articles for other publications. She was born on July 16, 1862, in Holly Springs, Miss. She died on March 25, 1931, in Chicago.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930 by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780807875469Publication Date: 2003-01-14
Frederick Douglass
Abolitionist Frederick Douglass was born a slave in 1817, but escaped to freedom at age 20. His life experience and his talent as a writer and orator helped him rise to become one of the most prominent figures of the Abolitionist Movement and later, the fight against Jim Crow laws. Douglass began publishing his newspaper, The North Star, on December 3, 1847, in Rochester, N.Y. The paper's motto was "Right is of no Sex -- Truth is of no Color -- God is the Father of us all, and we are all brethren." He died in 1895.
In the Words of Frederick Douglass by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780801447907Publication Date: 2011-12-22
