Ida: A Sword Among Lions

Ida: A Sword Among Lions
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 821
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ISBN-10 : 9780061972942
ISBN-13 : 0061972940
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Book Synopsis Ida: A Sword Among Lions by : Paula J. Giddings

Download or read book Ida: A Sword Among Lions written by Paula J. Giddings and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 821 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer 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.


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