Pulitzer Prize Board citation to Ida B.
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..
After being thrown bodily off the car, she wrote about the incident for black Baptist newspapers, thus beginning her career as a journalist.
Wells began her activist career when she tried to segregate a first-class railway car in Memphis.
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--crusading journalist and pioneer in the fight for women\'s suffrage and Against segregation and lynchings 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.
Pulitzer Prize Board citation to Ida B
