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

Ida : a sword among lions : Ida B. Wells and the campaign against lynching / Paula J. Giddings.

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Giddings, Paula
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Amistad, c2008.
Subjects:
Wells-Barnett, Ida B., > 1862-1931.
African American women > Biography.
African American women civil rights workers > Biography.
African American women social reformers > Biography.
Lynching.
Table of 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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