Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice
William Greaves
1989
William Greaves’s documentary on Ida B. Wells charts the pioneering African American journalist’s courageously outspoken reports and editorials concerning the major issues and events of her time, from racial violence in the post–Civil War South to the railroading of the Black men charged with conspiracy following the 1920 Arkansas Race Riot. A host of scholars and writers places Wells’s contributions to various social causes in historical context, while author Toni Morrison reads from Wells’s memoirs, bringing the many milestones of one of America’s most audacious and influential women to stirring life: her unflinching investigation into the sexual politics behind the South’s lynching epidemic, her fight against segregation within the women’s suffrage movement, and her role in founding the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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