Leadership Lessons from a Heroic, If "Difficult" Woman: A Tribute to Ida B. Wells
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TENNESSEE JOURNAL
OF LAW AND POLICY
VOLUME 14 WINTER 2020 ISSUE 2
ARTICLE
LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM A
HEROIC, IF DIFFICULT WOMAN:
A TRIBUTE TO IDA B. WELLS
Deborah L. Rhode*
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II. 489
III. 492
Ida Wells was, even by her own account, a
difficult woman.1 It is not difficult to see why. As the
nation's first prominent African American female
journalist and the founder of the nation's anti-lynching
movement in the late 19th century, she encountered
virulent racial and gender bias; anyone with her identity
*Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law and Director of the
Center on the Legal Profession. This essay is adapted from
DEBORAH L. RHODE, Profiles in Character: The Pursuit of
Social Justice, in CHARACTER: WHAT IT MEANS AND WHY IT
MATTERS 213, 213-30 (Oxford Univ. Press 2019). The
comments of Shirin Sinnar and Diane Chin are gratefully
acknowledged.
1 PAULA J. GIDDINGS, IDA: A SWORD AMONG LIONS 6 (2008).
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