Book
Ida : a sword among lions : Ida B. Wells and the campaign against lynching
Edition
1st ed.
Publication Information
New York, N.Y. : Amistad, 2008.
Physical Description
xii, 800 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Summary
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.
Contents
- 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.