Ida : a sword among lions : Ida B. Wells and the campaign against lynching

Giddings, Paula.

First Amistad paperback edition

Book

New York : Amistad, 2009.

xiv, 800 pages, [16] un-numbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Traces the life and legacy of the nineteenth-century activist and pioneer, documenting her birth into slavery, her career as a journalist and a pioneer for civil rights and suffrage, and her determination to counter lynching.

Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931.

African American women -- Biography.

African American women civil rights workers -- Biography.

African American women social reformers -- Biography.

Lynching.

Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.

Social reformers -- United States -- Biography.

Biographies.

Sword among lions

Ida B. Wells and the campaign against lynching

Holly Springs -- The new city and the ladies' car -- A breath of life, a winter of discontent -- Love and trouble -- A race in my arms -- City of the three murdered men -- Exodus -- "The truth about lynching" -- The loveliest lynchee was our Lord -- Light from a human torch -- St. Joan and Old Man Eloquent -- Exile no more -- "Let us confer together" -- Undivided duty -- Mobocracy in America -- Bull in the china shop -- Chicago and the wizard -- Calls -- Smoldering bridges -- The ladies' band -- The Alpha Suffrage Club -- Unsafe for democracy -- Known race agitator -- Prisoners of war -- Unfriendly takeovers -- The price of liberty.

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