INDEX

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A

• Abrams, Stacey, 121, 124
• Addams, Jane, 18
• Africa, 109
• Afro-American Press and Its Editors (Penn), 100
• Afro-American Press Convention, 49
• Ali, Muhammad, 98, 98
• Alpha Suffrage Club (ASC), 35, 37, 38, 100, 107
• Alpha Suffrage Record, 37–38
• American Baptist, 45
• American Experience, 13
• Anthony, Susan B., 34, 125
• Arkansas Race Riot, The (Wells), 104, 113
• Associated Press, 143

B

• Baartman, Sarah, 80–82, 83
• Baker, Ella, 31
• Baltimore, Charles W., 21
• Barnett, Ferdinand L., 17–19, 22, 23, 26, 39, 93, 125, 127–30, 129
• Barnett, Ferdinand L., Jr., 22
• Barnett, Ida, Jr., 11
• Barrett, William, 52–53
• Biden, Joe, 124, 130
• Black Lives Matter, 89, 122, 124
• Black Panthers, 42, 104
• Black Power, 98
• Black Youth Project 100, 124
• Boling, Spires, 57–58, 60, 143
• Boston Guardian, 87, 104
• Bradley, Bill, 91
• Braun, Carol Moseley, 130, 133
• Brinkley, W. A., 55
• Brooks, Virginia, 35
• Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 30
• Brown, Michael, 89, 94
• Bunch, Lonnie G., III, 114
• bus boycott in Harlem, 32

C

• Camp Logan, Houston, 20–21, 22
• Carlos, John, 98, 98
• Carmichael, Stokely, 42
• Central Park Five, 114, 115
• Charles, Robert, 110
• Charleston church shooting, 94
• Cherry, Matthew, 46
• Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad, 39–41, 40
• Chicago, Ill., 102, 119, 127
  • Ida B. Wells Drive in, 140, 141
  • Ida B. Wells historical marker in, 143
  • Ida B. Wells Homes in, 14, 138, 139
  • Ida B. Wells Way in, 136, 141
  • Ida’s house in, 139, 140
• Chicago Tribune, 35
• Chisholm, Shirley, 130, 130
• citizens’ organizations, 23
• civil rights movement, 42, 90, 93, 125
  • March on Washington, 30, 42
• Civil War, 34, 37, 57, 58, 90
• Clinton, Bill, 28, 91–92, 92
• Clinton, Hillary, 130, 133
• Confederate flags, 94, 94
• Confederate monuments, 90
• Congress, U.S., 107, 130
  • House of Representatives, 107, 119, 130, 130
  • Senate, 130
  • Constitution, U.S., 24
  • Fifteenth Amendment to, 60, 125
  • Nineteenth Amendment to, 125, 130
• Countee, R. N., 44, 55
• criminal justice system, 17, 42, 89, 127
• Crisis, 103
• CROWN Act, 46
• Crusade for Citizenship, 31
• Cullom, Shelby Moore, 84
• Cullors, Patrisse, 89

D

• Daley, Richard M., 15
• Davis, Angela, 42
• Davis, Frank, 126, 127
• Davis, Jordan, 121
• DeKnight, Freda, 113
• Democratic Party, 37, 60, 106
• Deneen, Charles S., 126, 127
• De Priest, Oscar, 107, 107
• Douglass, Frederick, 4, 4, 39, 49–51, 51, 114, 125
• Du Bois, W. E. B., 4, 28, 28, 102, 103
• Duke, David, 92
• Dunn, Michael, 121
• Duster, Alfreda Barnett, 11, 11, 38, 136, 138
• Duster, Donald L., 8–12, 9, 15
• Duster, Maxine, 8, 9, 10
• Duster, Michelle, 8–15, 9, 11, 13, 14
  • Ida as great-grandmother of, 10–15
• DuVernay, Ava, 114

E

• East St. Louis Massacre, The (Wells), 112
• Ebony, 113, 114
• Ebony Cookbook, The (DeKnight), 113
• Equal Justice Initiative, 114–17, 127
• Espionage Act, 23
• Evening Star, 44
• Evers, Medgar, 103, 104

F

• Fair Fight Action, 124
• FBI, 1–2, 7, 26–28, 31, 33, 34
• Fellowship Herald, 38
• Fifteenth Amendment, 60, 125
• First Defense Legal Aid, 127
• Fleming, J. L., 51
• Floyd, George, 124
• Foner, Eric, 49
• Fortson, Bettiola H., 35–37
• Fortune, T. Thomas, 45, 100, 100
• Freedmen’s Bureau, 58
• Freedom Democratic Party, 42
• Freedom’s Journal, 114
• Freedom Summer, 42
• Free Speech, 51, 52, 54–55, 82, 109
• Free Speech and Headlight, 51
• Fulton, Sybrina, 121

G

• Garvey, Marcus, 4, 108–9, 108
• Garza, Alicia, 89
• Gateway to Freedom (Foner), 49
• Georgia, 121
• Germany, 23, 24
• Ghana, 109
• Giddings, Paula, 14–15
• GirlTrek, 142
• Great Migration, 55, 112
• Great Recession of 2008, 14
• Greaves, William, 13, 14
• Green, Steve, 129
• Greer, James M., 41
• gun violence, 118–21, 119

H

• Hair Love, 46
• hairstyles, 46
• Haley, Nikki, 94
• Hamer, Fannie Lou, 42
• Hannah-Jones, Nikole, 114, 142
• Harlem, 32
• Harris, Kamala, 130, 135
• Herald Examiner, 19, 19, 20
• Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), 125
• Holly Springs, Miss., 15, 57–60, 58, 62–64
  • Ida B. Wells-Barnett Museum in, 15, 143, 144
• Holman, Lucien, 121
• Holtzclaw, Daniel, 82

I

• Ida: A Sword Among Lions (Giddings), 14–15
• Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice, 13, 14
• Ida B. Wells-Barnett Museum, 15, 143, 144
• Ida B. Wells Club, 100, 102
• Ida B. Wells Drive, 140, 141
• Ida B. Wells historical marker, 143
• Ida B. Wells Homes, 14, 138, 139
• Ida B. Wells Memorial Foundation, 136
• Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, 142–43
• Ida B. Wells Way, 136, 141
• Illinois Equal Suffrage Association (IESA), 34, 35, 100

J

• Jackson, Jesse, Sr., 91–92, 106, 106
• James, Will, 126
• Jay-Z, 97
• Jet, 113, 114
• Jim Crow laws, see segregation and Jim Crow laws
• Johnson, Corey, 143
• Johnson, John H., 113, 114
• Johnson Publishing Company, 113, 114
• Jordan, Barbara, 130, 133
• journalism, 3, 7, 43–52, 110, 143
• Justice Department, 28

K

• Kaepernick, Colin, 97–98
• Kemp, Brian, 124
• King, Martin Luther, Jr., 30, 42, 90, 106
• King, Rodney, 91, 92
• Ku Klux Klan, 59–62, 90, 92, 94

L

• labor unions, 30, 104, 113
• Legacy Museum, 114
• Lewis, John, 42, 90
• Lincoln, Abraham, 37, 90
• Little Rock Sun, 45
• Living Way, 44
• Los Angeles riots, 91
• Lowden, Frank, 112
• lynching, 2–4, 28, 38, 52–56, 87, 100–102, 104, 109–10, 112, 114–18, 129, 133, 143
  • Lynching Sites Projects, 117
  • Lynch Law in Georgia (Wells), 110, 110
  • Southern Horrors (Wells), 4, 110
• Lyons, Charlotte, 113

M

• Malcolm X, 33
• March on Washington, 30, 42
• Marion Headlight, 51
• Marshall, Thurgood, 103, 104
• Martin, Trayvon, 121
• Mattes, J. W., 21
• McBath, Lucy, 119, 121
• McCray, Antron, 115
• McDowell, Calvin, 52–56, 117, 117
• McKinley, William, 84, 87
• McMurry, Linda O., 78
• Meili, Tricia, 115
• Memphis, Tenn., 59
  • Beale Street in, 64, 141–42
  • boycotts in, 56
  • exodus from, 55, 112
  • school system in, 52, 82–84, 100
• Memphis Appeal-Avalanche, 41
• Mob Rule in New Orleans (Wells), 110
• Moss, Betty, 55
• Moss, Thomas, 52–56, 117, 117
• Moss, Thomas, Jr., 55
• Mother Emanuel AME Church, 94
• Mount Zion Cemetery, 117
• Movement for Black Lives, 124

N

• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Douglass), 51
• Nash, Diane, 42
• National Afro-American Council, 100–102
• national anthem, 97, 98
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 4, 31, 80, 94, 100, 102–4, 121, 127
• National Association of Colored Women (renamed the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs; NACWC), 7, 94, 100, 102, 103
• National Equal Rights League (NERL), 4, 87, 100, 104
• National Football League (NFL), 97–98
• National Guard, 112
• National Memorial for Peace and Justice, 117
• National Museum of African American History and Culture, 114
• National Rainbow Coalition, 91, 106, 106
• Nation of Islam, 33
• Negro Digest, 113
• Negro Fellowship League, 17–20, 22, 37, 38, 100, 127–29
• New Ebony Cookbook, The (Lyons), 113
• Newsome, Bree, 94, 94
• New York Age, 100, 100
• New York Freeman, 45
• New York Times Magazine, 114, 142
• New York World’s Fair, 32
• Niagara Movement, 28
• Nightingale, Taylor, 51
• Nineteenth Amendment, 125, 130
• Nixon, Ron, 143
• North Star, 51, 51, 114
• No Vote, No Tax League, 35

O

• Obama, Barack, 89–90, 94, 130
• Olympics, 98
• Operation PUSH, 106, 106
• Ovington, Mary White, 18

P

• Pan-Africanism, 28, 108
• Paris Peace Conference, 2, 109
• Parks, Rosa, 42, 80, 103
• PBS, 13
• Pelosi, Nancy, 130, 130
• Penn, Irvine Garland, 18, 39
• People’s Grocery, 52–54, 117
• police violence, 80, 82, 89–91, 97, 124, 126
• Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 32
• ProPublica, 142
• Pulitzer Prize, 7

Q

• “Queen of Our Race” (Fortson), 35–37

R

• Rainbow Coalition, 91
• Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, 106, 106
• Randolph, A. Philip, 30
• Rangel, Charles, 91
• Rankin, Jeannette, 130
• rape, 80, 82
• Rape of Recy Taylor, The, 80
• Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World’s Columbian Exposition, The (Wells), 39
• Reconstruction, 64, 90, 93, 125
• Republican Party, 37, 60
• Reyes, Matias, 115
• Richardson, Kevin, 115
• Rihanna, 97
• Robinson, Randall, 109
• Roof, Dylann, 94
• Roosevelt, Franklin D., 30
• Rose Bowl, 125
• Ruffin, Josephine St. Pierre, 7, 7
• Rust College, 59, 136, 138
• Rustin, Bayard, 42

S

• Salaam, Yusef, 115
• Sanders, Topher, 142
• Santana, Raymond, 115
• schoolhouse, rural, 64
• Secret Service, 20, 24–26
• segregation and Jim Crow laws, 2, 7, 20, 28, 31, 38, 41, 42, 64, 66, 93, 133
  • soldiers and, 20
  • train passengers and, 38–43, 40, 66
  • Wilson administration and, 23–24, 87
• Sentencing Project, 127
• sexual violence, 80, 82
• sharecroppers, 104, 112–14, 125
• Sharpton, Al, 90
• Shaw University, 31
• Simmons, William J., 45
• Sister Souljah, 91–93, 92
• sit-ins, 31, 42
• “1619 Project,” 114
• slaves, slavery, 34, 37, 59, 60, 80, 90, 93, 114, 125, 135
  • Fugitive Slave Act and, 49
  • Underground Railroad and, 49, 51
• Smith, Tommie, 98, 98
• Smithsonian Institute, 114
• soldiers, Black, 22, 24, 30
  • murder of, 19–27, 24
  • segregation and, 20
  • Tuskegee Airmen, 28
• Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), 104
• Southern Horrors (Wells), 4, 110
• Southern Poverty Law Center, 127
• Sparks, Lee, 21
• Squire, Belle, 35
• Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 125
• Stewart, William, 52–56, 117, 117
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 31, 42, 104
• suffrage movement, 7, 34–38, 37, 93, 102, 107, 124, 125

T

• Tampa Bay Times, 143
• Taylor, Recy, 80
• Tennessee Rifles, 53–54
• Terrell, Mary Church, 4, 7, 7, 102
• 13th, 114
• Thompson, James R. “Jim,” 10
• timeline of events, 68–77
• To Keep the Waters Troubled (McMurry), 78
• Tometi, Opal, 89
• train passengers, 38–43, 40, 66
• TransAfrica Forum, 109
• Trotter, William Monroe, 4, 18, 87–88, 104, 104
• Trump, Donald, 88, 90, 115, 118, 124
• Tubman, Harriet, 7, 7, 125
• Ture, Kwame, 42
• Tuskegee Airmen, 28

U

• Underground Railroad, 49, 51
• unions, 30, 104, 113
• United Kingdom, 102
• Universal Negro Improvement Association, 4, 100, 108

V

• Vietnam War, 98
• violence, 2, 90, 112
  • gun, 118–21, 119
  • lynching, see lynching
  • murder of Black soldiers, 19–27, 24
  • police, 80, 82, 89–91, 97, 124, 126
  • sexual, 80, 82
• voting registration, 31, 121
• voting rights, 125, 133
  • for African American men, 60, 60, 125
  • Voting Rights Act, 42
  • for women, 7, 34–38, 37, 93, 102, 107, 124, 125
• voting suppression, 90, 124
• Vox, 94

W

• Walker, Madam C. J., 4, 109
• Washington Bee, 45
• Washington Post, 91
• Waters, Maxine, 118
• Wells, Elizabeth, 57–63, 79, 143
• Wells, Ida B., 1–7, 57–67, 78–80, 82–84, 93–94, 100–104, 133
  • appearance and clothing of, 45–46
  • author’s relationship to, 10–15
  • birth of, 57
  • childhood of, 59
  • desk of, 144
  • house of, 139, 140
  • Illinois state senate campaign of, 93
  • “Iola” pen name of, 44–45
  • journalism career of, 3, 7, 43–52, 110, 143
  • legacy of, 136
  • memorials and monuments to, 136–45
  • parents of, 57–64, 79, 143
  • passport denied, 2, 109
  • printing press of, 100, 141–43
  • as probation officer, 18, 38
  • Pulitzer Prize Special Citation awarded to, 7, 114
  • in suffrage march, 35–37, 37
  • teaching career of, 39, 41, 46, 52, 64, 82–84, 100, 143
  • train segregation and, 38–43, 40
  • travels of, 102
  • twenty-fifth birthday journal entry of, 46–49
  • Wilson and, 17, 87, 87
• Wells, Ida B., writings of
  • The Arkansas Race Riot, 104, 113
  • The East St. Louis Massacre, 112
  • Lynch Law in Georgia, 110, 110
  • Mob Rule in New Orleans, 110
  • The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World’s Columbian Exposition, 39
  • Southern Horrors, 4
• Wells, James, 57–64, 79, 143
• When They See Us, 114
• Wilder, Douglas, 121
• Williams, Serena, 82
• Wilson, Darren, 89
• Wilson, Woodrow, 2, 23–24, 24, 35, 87, 88, 104
  • Ida and, 17, 87, 87
• Wise, Korey, 115
• Women’s Era Club, 102
• Women’s Second Ward Republican Club, 34, 37
• women’s rights, 124–25
  • suffrage movement, 7, 34–38, 37, 93, 102, 107, 124, 125
• Woodson, Carter G., 18
• World War I, 24, 28, 93, 104, 109, 112
• World War II, 28, 30

Y

• yellow fever, 62–63

Z

• Zimmerman, George, 121