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

Call Number

  • 921 W4546G (CEN)

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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.

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