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Missing in Action: Ida B.Wells, NAACP, and the Historical Record
- Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism
- Duke University Press
- Volume 19, Supplement 2020
- pp. 69-86
- Article
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Abstract:
In 1930, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was surprised and disappointed to find that, despite her pioneering role as an anti-lynching activist and a founder of the NAACP, her name was not included in a contemporary Black history text by Carter G. Woodson, the "Father of Negro History." This essay interrogates the social and political forces, beyond conventional racism and sexism, that marginalized Wells-Barnett's place in history.