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ENGL.4010: Selected Authors: The Harlem Renaissance

ida b wells barnett
"Ida B. Wells-Barnett, journalist and civil rights activist." 
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Photographs and Prints Division,
The New York Public Library Digital Collections.

Week 6:

Anti-Lynching Dramas: Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Georgia Douglas Johnson, May Miller, and Mary P. Burrill 

Read

Two essays on lynching by Ida B. Wells [Online Handouts/Link].

  • Georgia Douglass Johnson’s play "Safe" [Online Handout/Link],
  • May Miller Nails and Thorns [Online Handout/Link]
  • Mary P. Burrill Aftermath



 


 

wc handy and duke ellington
Bandleader and composer Duke Ellington (right) with composer W.C. Handy, circa 1940s
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, New York Public Library Digital Collections