Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against LynchingPulitzer Prize Board citation to Ida B. Wells, as an early pioneer of investigative journalism and civil rights icon From a thinker who Maya Angelou has praised for shining “a brilliant light on the lives of women left in the shadow of history,” comes the definitive biography of Ida B. Wells—crusading journalist and pioneer in the fight for women’s suffrage and against segregation and lynchings Ida B. Wells was born into slavery and raised in the Victorian age yet emerged—through her fierce political battles and progressive thinking—as the first “modern” black women in the nation’s history. Wells began her activist career when she tried to segregate a first-class railway car in Memphis. After being thrown bodily off the car, she wrote about the incident for black Baptist newspapers, thus beginning her career as a journalist. But her most abiding fight would be the one against lynching, a crime in which she saw all the themes she held most dear coalesce: sexuality, race, and the law. |
Contents
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CHAPTER THREE A Breath of Life A Winter of Discontent | 69 |
CHAPTER FOUR Love and Trouble | 98 |
CHAPTER SEVEN Exodus | 188 |
CHAPTER EIGHT The Truth About Lynching | 211 |
CHAPTER NINE The Loveliest Lynchee Was Our Lord | 230 |
CHAPTER ELEVEN St Joan and Old Man Eloquent | 283 |
CHAPTER TWELVE Exile No More | 311 |
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Chicago and the Wizard | 433 |
CHAPTER TWENTYTHREE Known Race Agitator | 575 |
CHAPTER TWENTYFOUR Prisoners of War | 592 |
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Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching Paula Giddings Limited preview - 2008 |
Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching Paula J. Giddings No preview available - 2009 |