by Mia Bay
“Mr. Moody and Miss Willard” (Wells-Barnett)
Municipal and Presidential Voting Act (1913)
Murray, Abraham Lincoln
Nation, The
National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
National Association Notes
National Association of Black Women’s Clubs
National Association of Colored Women (NACW)
National Colored Congress for World Democracy
National Colored Press Association
National Conference of Colored Women of America
National Conference of Unitarians
National Equal Rights League (NERL)
National Federation of African American Women (NFAAW)
National League of Colored Women
National Negro Business League
National Negro Conference
National Notes
National Press Association
National Women’s Colored League
Negro Fellowship League (NFL)
Negro Fellowship League Reading Room and Social Center
New Deal Paper
New Era Club
New Orleans, La.
New York, N.Y.
New York Age
New York Times
Niagara Movement
Nightingale, Taylor
North Carolina
Northern, William
“Oberlin girls,”
Offett, William
“Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others” (Du Bois)
Olsen, Harry
Ovington, Mary White
Palmer, Bertha
Palmer House
Panic of 1893
Paris, Tex.
Parker, Hale G.
Parker, John J.
“Parting of the Ways, The” (Du Bois)
patronage appointments
Patton, Georgia E. L.
Payne, Daniel A.
Pelley, Annie
Pene, Xavier
Penn, Garland
Penn, Irvine Garland
People’s Community Church of Christ
People’s Grocery
Peterson, Jerome B.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Phillips, Wendell
Pierce, James O.
Pierce, Leonard
Pinkerton Detective Agency
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plummer, Mrs.
Police Gazette
poll taxes
Poole, Mr.
“Practical Negro Advancement” (Washington)
Progressive Farmers and Household Union
Protestants
Providence, R.I.
Public Ledger
public protest
Puck
Pulaski, Tenn.
Pullman Palace Car Company
Quaker Oats
Quin Chapel Committee
“Race Problem in America, The” (Aked)
race riots
“Race War in the North, The” (Walling)
racial violence
racism; sexualization of
Radical Reconstruction, see Reconstruction
Radical Republicans
railroads; and black women; color line in; ladies’ cars in; Pullman cars in; “smear campaign” against Wells of; smoker cars in
Randolph, A. Philip
Ransom, Reverdy
rape; of black women by whites; false allegations of; as justification for lynching; racial politics of
Ray, Mary
Ray, Ruby
“reasonable regulations,”
Reason Why, The (Wells-Barnett)
Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World’s Columbian Exposition, The
Reconstruction; collapse of; myth of
redeemers
Red Record, A (Wells-Barnett)
“Red-shirts,”
Red Summer of 1919
Reese, Maggie
reform movements
Republican Party; abandonment of black vote by
“Requirements of Southern Journalism” (Wells-Barnett)
Revels, Hiram Rhodes
Richardson, Ana
Richardson, Ellen
Richmond Planet
Roberts, Adelbert H.
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rosenwald, Julius
Ruffin, Josephine St. Pierre
Russell, Charles Edward
Rust College
Rutt, Chris L.
Rydell, Robert W.
Sachs, Mr.
Saddler, Will
Salzner, Henry
San Francisco, Calif.
Sanger, Margaret
“scalawags,”
Schechter, Patricia
Scott, Emmett
Sears Roebuck
Secret Service, U.S.
segregation; of federal offices; by gender; Plessy case and; of schools
segregationists
Selective Service Act (1917)
Senate, U.S.; Judiciary Committee of
Settle, Josiah
Settles (wealthy Memphis couple)
sexism
sharecroppers
sharecropping
Shaw University
Sikeston, Mo.
Silkey, Sarah L.
Singleton, Benjamin “Pap,”
slavery; domestic slave trade and
Slayton, Mr.
Slayton Lyceum Bureau
Smith, Henry
Smith, J. K.
“smoker” cars
Social Darwinism
“social purity” campaigns
Society for the Recognition of the Universal Brotherhood of Man (SRUBM)
Somerset, Lady Henry
Souls of Black Folk, The (Du Bois)
South Carolina
Southern Horrors (Wells-Barnett)
Spain
Spanish-American War
spectacle lynchings
Spectator, The
Sprague, Fredericka
Sprague, Rosa Douglass
Springfield, Ill.
Spring Valley, Ill.
Spring Valley Coal Company
Squire, Belle
Star, The
steamboat companies
Stewart, William
“Story of 1900, A” (Wells-Barnett)
“Strange Fruit,”
Strickland, Elijah
Stricklin, Mr.
Strunsky, Anna
Sumner, Charles
Sun (Baltimore)
Sun (London)
Sun (New York)
Supreme Court, U.S.
“talented tenth,”
Tanner, John R.
tarring and feathering
Taylor, C. H.
Taylor, Julius
Taylor, Will
Telegraph, The (Macon, Ga.)
temperance
Tennessee; “colored car” law of; disenfranchisement in
Tennessee Rifles
Tennessee State Supreme Court
Terrell, Mary Church
Terrell, Robert Herberton
Texas
Third Enforcement Act (1871)
Third Ward Women’s Political Club
Thompson, William Hale “Big Bill,”
Tilden, Samuel
Tillman, Benjamin “Pitchfork,”
Times (London)
Times-Democrat (New Orleans)
Topeka Weekly Call
Tourgée, Albion
Tourgée Club
Tremont Temple
Trotter, James
Trotter, William Monroe
Trout, Grace Wilbur
Truth, Sojourner
Tubman, Harriet
Tunica County, Miss.
Turner, Henry MacNeal
Turney, Peter
Tuskegee Institute
Twenty-fourth Infantry
“Two Christmas Days: A Holiday Story” (Wells-Barnett)
<
br /> “Understanding Clause,”
Underwood, Mr.
Underwood, Mrs. J. S.
unions
United States Independent Order of Good Templars
Universal Negro Improvement Organization
Urban League
Vance, Myrtle
vigilante justice
Villard, Henry
Villard, Oswald Garrison
Visalia, Calif.
Voice, The (New York)
Voice from the South, A (Cooper)
voting rights
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Waddell, Alfred Moore
Walker, Lee
Walling, William English
Washington, Booker T.; accommodationist platform of; public image of; Trotter’s attacks on
Washington, D.C.
Washington, Margaret Murray
Washington, Portia
Washington Post
Waters, Alexander
Welke, Barbara
Wellesley College
Wells, Elisabeth “Lizzie,”
Wells, Eugenia
Wells, Fannie
Wells, George
Wells, James (brother)
Wells, James “Jim” (father)
Wells, Lily
Wells, Margaret
Wells, Peggy
Wells, Stanley
Wells-Barnett, Ida B.; as adult parole officer; African American critics of; Afro-American Council and; as agitator; ambition of; as antilynching crusader; autobiography of, see Crusade for Justice; and Baker lynching; Bible study classes of; birth of; break from Washington of; California trip of; character defamation of; Charles lynching and; childhood of; class prejudice of; Columbian Exposition and, see Columbian Exposition; continuing activism of; criticism of; death of; death threats received by; and destruction of Free Speech; Douglass friendship of; early career doubts of; education of; Elaine massacre and; “Exiled” nom de plume of; financial troubles of; Frederick Douglass Center and; as head of her family; ideas of female leadership of; Illinois-based activism of; Impey’s invitation to; increasing isolation of; interracial cooperation as difficult for; leadership credentials of; as lecturer; love of books and; Lyric Hall speech of; on marriage; marriage of; in Memphis; middle-class aspirations of; militant spirit of; Miller lynching investigation of; as modern-day Joan of Arc; on motherhood; as muckracking journalist; NAACP and; NACW and; national reputation of; Negro Fellowship League and; 1919 Chicago riot and; parents’ deaths and; pen name of; pistol carried by; political independence of; possible depression of; railroad lawsuits of; Reconstruction and; in run for president of NACW; second British tour of; self-defense advocated by; sexual improprieties suspected of; Smith lynching and; as social critic; social life of; Spanish-American War and; speech on mob violence of; state senate run of; suffrage work of; teaching career of; temper of; trip to Cairo of; in trip to England; Victorian sexual ideology of; wedding of; white hostility to; women’s support of; World War I and
Wendell Phillips High School
Westminster Gazette
White, George
White, Walter
“white slavery,”
white supremacy
Willard, Frances
Williams, A. M.
Williams, Eugene
Williams, Fannie Barrier
Williams, S. Laing
Wilmington, N.C.
Wilson, Woodrow
“Woman in Journalism, How I would Edit” (Wells-Barnett)
Woman’s Corner columns
Woman’s Era, The
“Woman’s Mission” (Wells-Barnett)
Woman’s Political and Social Union
women; ideals of; as lecturers; lynching as issue of; political influence of; reform role of; as supportive of Wells
women, black; class status of; in Columbian Exposition; expressions of militancy among; ideals of womanhood and; marriage and; media attacks on; public indignities visited upon; sexual assaults on; volunteerism of
Women’s Building Board of Lady Managers
Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
women’s clubs
Women’s Columbian Association (WCA)
Women’s Columbian Auxiliary Association (WCAA)
Women’s Era
Women’s Loyal Union
Women’s Second Ward Republican Club
women’s suffrage
Woodall, William
Woodson, Carter G.
Woodstock, Tenn.
Woolley, Celia Parker
World Today
World War I
Wright, Edward H.
Wright, Silas P.
yellow fever
YMCA
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bay, Mia.
To tell the truth freely: the life of Ida B. Wells / Mia Bay.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 978-1-4668-0360-2
1. Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862–1931. 2. African American women civil rights workers—Biography. 3. Civil rights workers—United States—Biography. 4. African American women educators—Biography. 5. African American women journalists—Biography. 6. United States—Race relations. 7. African Americans—Civil rights—History. 8. African Americans—Social conditions—To 1964. 9. Lynching—United States—History. I. Title.
E185.97.W55B39 2009
323.092—dc22
[B]
2008047116
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