Ida: A Sword Among Lions Contributor(s): Giddings, Paula J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060797363 ISBN-13: 9780060797362 Publisher: Amistad Press OUR PRICE: $18.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2009 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Social Science | Women's Studies |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2012371074 |
Physical Information: 1.47" H x 5.32" W x 8" (1.40 lbs) 832 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Black History - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Pulitzer Prize Board citation to Ida B. Wells, as an early pioneer of investigative journalism and civil rights icon From 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Giddings, Paula J.: - Paula J. Giddings is the Elizabeth A. Woodson 1922 Professor in Afro-American Studies at Smith College and the author of When and Where I Enter and In Search of Sisterhood. |