The light of truth : writings of an anti-lynching crusader /

The light of truth : writings of an anti-lynching crusader /

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"The broadest and most comprehensive collection of writings available by an early civil and women's rights pioneer . Seventy-one years before Rosa Parks's courageous act of resistance, police dragged a young Black journalist named Ida B. Wells off a train for refusing to give up her s...

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Main Author: Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931 (Author)
Other Authors: Bay, Mia (Editor, author of introduction.), Gates, Henry Louis, Jr (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2014.
Series:Penguin classics.
Subjects:
Wells-Barnett, Ida B., > 1862-1931 > Archives.
Lynching > United States > History > Sources.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > Sources.
African Americans > Social conditions > To 1964 > Sources.
Women's rights > United States > History > Sources.
African American women social reformers > Archives.
African American women civil rights workers > Archives.
HISTORY > United States > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century > Sources.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century > Sources.
Table of Contents:
  • "Iola, the Princess of the Press" : Wells's Early Writings
  • To Call a Thing by Its True Name : Wells's Crusade Against Lynching
  • Ida B. Wells Abroad
  • The Crusade Continues
  • Twentieth-Century Journalism and Letters.

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