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Ida : a sword among lions : Ida B. Wells and the campaign against lynching
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Ida : a sword among lions : Ida B. Wells and the campaign against lynching / Paula J. Giddings.
ISBN
9780060519216
0060519215
Published
New York, N.Y. : Amistad, c2008.
Physical Description
xii, 800 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
Variant and related titles
Sword among lions
Ida B. Wells and the campaign against lynching
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 06, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [733]-766) and index.
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.
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