Ida: A Sword Among Lions - Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching - E-book - ePub

Pulitzer Prize Board citation to Ida B. Wells, as an early pioneer of investigative journalism and civil rights iconFrom 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.