Title: Womanist justice, womanist hope
First published: 1993
Description: This book offers an important contribution to the recovery and articulation of African-American womanist experience. Ida Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) was an activist, social reformer, and churchwoman. Womanist justice, womanist hope recovers her life and historical context and examines the extent to which her perspective can be a resource for a contemporary womanist Christian social ethic. Beginning with a brief biographical sketch of Wells-Barnett, Emilie Townes examines the religious and social world in which she worked as well as her many speeches and publciations. Townes focuses especially on Wells-Barnett's participation in the anti-lynching campaigns of the late nineteenth century. She argues that Wells-Barnett's life and work can provide important lessons in leadership and social activism for contemporary Black churchwomen.
Subjects: Biography, African American women civil rights workers, Civil rights workers, Wells-barnett, ida b., 1862-1931
Places: United States
People: Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931)
LC classification: E185.97.B26 T69 1993