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The Southern Roots of Ida B. Wells-Barnett's Revolutionary Activism
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Southern Quarterly
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April 1, 2008
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We recover what we are culturally and psychologically prepared to recover and what we 'recover' we necessarily rewrite, giving it meanings that are inescapably contemporary, giving it a new discursive life in the present, a life it cannot have had before. - Cary Nelson1
In the midst of my research for this essay, it suddenly struck me how little I, a proud native Memphian, educated in the city's public school system, raised in Bethel Grove - a predominantly black neighborhood on the southeast edge of the urban core - knew about Ida B. Wells-Barnett. I /zad been exposed early to the history of Memphis. I vividly recall visiting the Memphis Room, the archives of the Memphis Public Library ...
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