Titles
- Sword Among Lions
- Ida B. Wells And The Campaign Against Lynching
Attribution
Paula J. GiddingsPublication Details
Book1st edAmistad2007Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E185.97.W55 G53 2008 NEW BOOK(MAIN) New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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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 sweeping narrative about a country and a crusader embroiled in the struggle against lynching: a practice that imperiled not only the lives of black men and women, but also a nation based on law and riven by race. 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. Wells firmly in the context of her times as well as ours, Giddings at long last gives this visionary reformer her due and, in the process, sheds light on an aspect of our history that is often left in the shadows. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Wells-Barnett, Ida B., — 1862-1931
- Wells-Barnett, Ida B., — 1862-1931. — sears
- African American women — Biography
- African American women civil rights workers — Biography
- African American women social reformers — Biography
- Lynching
- Civil rights — United States — Biography. — sears
- Journalists — United States — Biography. — sears
- Lynching — United States — History. — sears
- United States — Race relations. — sears
Notes
- 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
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
ISBN
- 9780060519216
- 0060519215
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