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

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

Author
: 
Giddings, Paula.

ISBN
: 
9780060519216

Edition
: 
1st ed.

Publication Information
: 
New York, N.Y. : Amistad, c2008.

Physical Description
: 
xii, 800 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Personal Subject
: 
Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931.

Subject Term
: 
African American women -- Biography.
 
African American women civil rights workers -- Biography.
 
African American women social reformers -- Biography.
 
Lynching.

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.


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R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury)921 WELLSChecked Out