Ida: A Sword Among Lions
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Ida: A Sword Among Lions by Paula J Giddings
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780060519216 |
| ISBN 10 | 0060519215 |
| Title | Ida: A Sword Among Lions |
| Author | Paula J Giddings |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Year published | 2008-03-11 |
| Number of pages | 816 |
| Prizes | Winner of Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary_award (Nonfiction) 2009, Winner of L.A. Times Book Prize (Biography) 2008, Commended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Biography) 2008 |
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