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AAS366: Ida B. Wells and the Beginning of the Modern Civil Rights Movement: Background

Spring 2011, P. Giddings

Wells Websites

Ida B. Wells Website (Ida B. Wells Family)
Ida B. Wells (Northern Illinois Univ.)
Includes digitized versions of some of Wells writings.

Background/Context

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas (6 vols.)
Encyclopedia of African American Society (2 vols.)
Call Number: ref E 185 .E546 2005
Encyclopedia of American Social Movements (4 vols.)
Call Number: ref HN 57 .E594 2004
Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America (3 vols.)
Call Number: ref E 185.61 .E544 1998
Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture (3 vols.)
Call Number: ref DT 16.5 .E53 2008
Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration (3 vols.)
Call Number: ref E 185.6 .E54 2006
Jim Crow Encyclopedia (2 vols.)
Call Number: ref E 185.61 .J53 2008
Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought

Biographical Sources

American National Biography
Call Number: ref CT 213 .A68 1999
Black women in America
Call Number: ref E 185.86 .B542 2005
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Contains two lengthy articles on Ida B. Wells, one from American Women Prose Writers, 1870-1920 and one from American Newspaper Journalists, 1873-1900.
Oxford African American Studies Center
Includes all articles from these core reference works (in addition to drawing from other sources): Black Women in America; African American National Biography; Africana; Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895; and Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present.

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