Ida: A Sword Among Lions
Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching
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Word Count
204,000 words, Guess
Page Count
816 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveidaswordamonglio0000gidd
- ISBN-100060519215
- ISBN-139780060519216
- Goodreads1126292
- LibraryThing4811556
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- OCLC Control Number149167871
- Better World Books9780060519216
- Open LibraryOL9950093M
Classifications
- LCCE185.97.W55 G53 2008
- LCCE185.97
- LCCE185.97.W55 G54 2008
Description
Biography of journalist and educator, Ida B. Wells. Wells was born into slavery and had reached her late teens by the end of the Civil War. As Wells grows into her adulthood in Memphis during reconstruction, Wells has a perfect view of the activist African-American leadership that burst forth in faith of God, America and their racial brothers. Wells wrote as both a woman and a black woman throughout the period after the war including the Supreme Court's "Separate but Equal" ruling (incomplete) The book is a great example of the growing genre of the popular research biography.)
Description
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.
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- Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching
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