BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs, ed. Women Public Speakers in the United States, 1800-1925, pp. 462-75. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993.

Listing of biographical and critical sources relating to Wells-Barnett as an orator.

Deegan, Mary Jo, ed. “Ida B. Wells-Barnett.” In Women in Sociology: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook, pp. 432-39. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1991.

List of primary and secondary works, focused mostly on Wells-Barnett as a social reformer.

Harris, Vergie Nobles. “Wells-Barnett, Ida.” In African-American Orators: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook, edited by Richard W. Leeman, pp. 367-69. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996.

Overview of biographical and critical sources on Wells-Barnett.

Nelson, Emmanuel S., ed. “Ida B. Wells-Barnett.” In African American Authors, 1745-1945: Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000, 465 p.

Biographical, thematic, and bibliographical overview.

Shockley, Ann Allen. Afro-American Women Writers, 1746-1933: An Anthology and Critical Guide. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000, 465 p.

List of works relevant to Wells-Barnett's life and times.

BIOGRAPHIES

Brantley, Ben, et al. “Irritating Women.” New York Times Magazine 148, no. 51524 (16 May 1999): 122.

Profiles of several women in history, including Wells-Barnett, who have called attention to themselves or to important issues by making trouble.

DeCosta-Willis, Miriam. “Ida B. Wells-Barnett.” In The Oxford Companion to African American Literature, edited by William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, and Trudier Harris, pp. 763-64. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Brief biographical sketch.

Franklin, V. P. “Ida B. Wells-Barnett: To Tell the Truth Freely.” In Living Our Stories, Telling Our Truths, pp. 59-93. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Somewhat lengthy account of Wells-Barnett's life and works.

Giddings, Paula. “Ida Wells-Barnett.” In Portraits of American Women, pp. 367-85. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.

Biographical sketch.

Hardy, Gayle J. “Wells-Barnett, Ida B.” In American Women Civil Rights Activists: Biobibliographies of 68 Leaders, pp. 403-08. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 1993.

Brief biography of Wells-Barnett as a journalist and civil rights reformer.

Moreau, Shannon. “Crusader for Justice.” American History 35, no. 6 (February 2001): 18.

One-page sketch of Wells-Barnett as a reformer.

Salzman, Jack, ed. “Wells-Barnett, Ida B.” In African-American History: Selections from the Five-Volume Macmillan Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, pp. 1069-70. New York: Macmillan Library Reference, 1998.

Brief biographical sketch.

Sterling, Dorothy. Black Foremothers: Three Lives. New York: Feminist Press, 1979, 174 p.

A study of three prominent African-American women: Wells-Barnett, Ellen Craft, and Mary Church Terrell.

Thompson, Mildred. Ida B. Wells-Barnett: An Exploratory Study of an American Black Woman, 1893-1930. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson Publishing, 1990, 289 p.

Biography of Wells-Barnett in the context of her times; part of Black Women in U. S. History series.

CRITICISM

Royster, Jacqueline Jones. “Introduction.” In Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900, pp. 1-13. Boston: Bedford Books, 1997.

Introduction to a collection of anti-lynching writings by Wells-Barnett and others.

Schechter, Patricia Ann. Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001, 386 p.

Study focusing on Wells-Barnett's activism, as well as her ideological mind-set and self-representation.

Additional coverage of Wells-Barnett's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 182; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 23, 221; and Literature Resource Center.