The Progressives, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, and the Multiple Racisms That Marked Jim Crow Segregation

Abstract

In this chapter, the authors focus on the genealogical dimensions of the anti-lynching efforts of those nineteenth-century progressive advocates who joined Ida B. Wells-Barnett during her anti-lynching crusades. Extending the work of post-structural theorists, who focus on larger discursive formations, the authors comment on the enduring texts and visualities that swirled around Wells-Barnett and those who critiqued her work as she put together her famed “Red Record” of lynchings.