... Press, now published by Duke University Press on behalf of Smith College 2001 antilynching Springfield Riot NAACP African American women social work When Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) 1 sat down at her long dining room table in 1928, three years before her death, to begin writing...

... riot in Springfield, Illinois. In the summer of 1908, the city of Springfield, Illinois, was preparing for the centennial celebration of its native son, Abraham Lincoln, born just a short distance away. But in the sweltering heat of the season, the largely rural white population of Kentucky...

... family harms women in their struggle for independence and equality" (Springfield 1997, xvii), and also disadvantages sexual minorities in many societies. Their sexual rights being violated, Molly and Mikey are unable to freely express their sexuality. Molly observes that the family back in Jamaica has...