Publisher's Synopsis
Reporting Live from Jim Crow Ida B. Wells contains The Crow Code 1877 and RLFJC. The Crow Code 1877 provides readers with a front row seat to the theft of Black American citizenship, after an election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden. Mercy Justice and Abbie Senior find themselves in a position having to take up arms and fight as the pendulum swings towards the ending of a very short period of Reconstruction. The Ku Klux Klan is temporarily dismantled, giving rise to a new group who decide to rewrite the history of the Civil War. The Crow Code 1877 is the Ida B. Wells origin story, told from an different angle, instead of just copying and pasting her timeline, E.J. Wade slow walks the reader through history that is not taught in American classrooms.
Reporting Live from Jim Crow Ida B. Wells erases the sanitized narrative of the Foundational Black American hero, and introduces you to the real Ida. B. Wells-Barnett. Ida B. Wells finds herself on a journey to investigate the lynching of black business owners throughout the south as racial stereotypes are used as the justification for the killings. A group of men attempt to silence Ms. Wells-Barnett by placing a bounty on her head. Ida B. Wells goes from a young girl who passes for a school teacher to a hero who is willing to stand up and fight for her freedom! RLFJC reveals why this larger than life figure was removed from American History. Bonus material contains photographs, The Black Wealth Apparatus and "Into Oblivion" (A Conversation about the U.S. Constitution."E.J. Wade is the most relentless author of our time, he carefully weaves two stories together, creating a dark masterpiece."
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