Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching Exiled from the South by 1892, Wells subsequently took her campaign across the country and th.In the tradition of towering biographies that tell us as much about America as they do about their subjec
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| Title | : | Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.92 (644 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060519215 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 816 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2008-03-11 |
| Genre | : |
Editorial : “A groundbreaking biography gives this warrior her due.” (O magazine)
A sweeping and timely biographical narrative about Ida B. Wellsa paragon of American history. (Ebony)
“A hearty thumbs-up for this powerful retelling of her life.” (Essence)
“Paula J. Giddings IDA: A SWORD AMONG LIONS (Amistad) is a worthy biography of the vibrant crusader who led the nation’s first campaign against lynching.” (Vogue)
“Ida B. Wells was an inspired journalist, an uncompromising civil libertarian, and a woman far ahead of her patriarchal timesa ‘difficult’ woman. Paula Giddings’s monumental achievement restores this extraordinary contrarian to her place as one of the grand pace-setters of American social justice and female empowerment.” (David Levering Lewis, Pulitzer Prize-Winning biographer of W.E.B. DuBois)
“History at its bestclear, intelligent, moving. Paula Giddings
In the tradition of towering biographies that tell us as much about America as they do about their subject, Ida: A Sword Among Lions is a sweepingnarrative about a country and a crusader embroiled in the struggle against lynching: a practice that imperiled not only the lives of blackmen and women, but also a nation based on law and riven by race.At the center of the national drama is Ida B. Wells (1862-1931), born to slaves in Mississippi, who began her activist career by refusing to leave a first-class ladies’ car on a Memphis railway and rose to lead the nation’s firstcampaign against lynching. For Wells the key to the rise in violence was embedded in attitudes not only about black men but about women and sexuality as well. Her independent perspective and percussive personality gained her encomiums as a hero -- as well as aspersions on her character and threats of death. Exiled from the South by 1892, Wells subsequently took her campaign across the country and th
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