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How Journalist Ida B. Wells Paved the Way for Federal Anti-Lynching Legislation
The Takeaway
English - March 14, 2022 16:00 - 13.1 MB - ★★★★ - 711 ratingsDaily News News Politics news politics radio national takeaway wnyc Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Last week, the Senate passed federal anti-lynching legislation, called the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, through unanimous consent. This comes after 100 years and 200 failed attempts in which anti-lynching measures were blocked by Congress.
The Takeaway speaks with Paula Giddings, professor emerita of Africana studies at Smith College and author of Ida: A Sword Among Lions, a biography of Ida B. Wells, about the work that journalist and anti-lynching advocate Ida B. Wells did to bring awareness to racial terror lynchings during her lifetime.