Mary Church Terrell and Ida B. Wells-Barnett were outstanding black
women reformers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
This article describes their contributions to the fight for human rights
by reframing data from secondary sources and analyzing some of the
women's original works.
References
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Terrell, M.C. (ca. 1899). The duty of the National Association of Colored Women to the race, Church Review, pp. 340-354.
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In Mary Church Terrell Papers, Moorland Spingarn Research Center, Howard University, Washington, DC.
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Terrell, M.C. (1901). Club work of colored women, Southern Workman, 30(8), 435-438.
20.
In Mary Church Terrell Papers, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University, Washington, DC.
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Terrell, M.C. (1983). The justice of woman suffrage. The Crisis, 90, 5-6. (Original work published 1912)
22.
Wells-Barnett, I.B. (1977). Lynching and the excuse for it. In B. Aptheker (Ed.), Lynching and rape: An exchange of views (pp. 28-34). New York: American Institute for Marxist Studies. (Original work published 1901)
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