Heralded as a landmark achievement upon publication, 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.
Wells and gives the visionary reformer her due..
Giddings brings to life the irrepressible personality of Ida B.
In this groundbreaking work, Paula J.
With meticulous research and vivid rendering of her subject, Giddings also provides compelling portraits of twentieth-century progressive luminaries, blacks and whites who worked with Wells during some of the most tumultuous periods in American history.
There she continued her activism as a journalist, suffragist, and independent candidate in the rough-and-tumble world of the Windy City\'s politics.
Exiled from the South by 1892, Wells subsequently took her Campaign across the country and throughout the British Isles before she married and settled in Chicago.
Her independent perspective and percussive personality gained her encomiums as a hero--as well as aspersions on her character and threats of death.
For Wells, the key to the rise in violence was embedded in attitudes not only about black men, but also about women and sexuality.
Born to slaves in Mississippi, Wells began her activist career by refusing to leave a first-class ladies\' car on a Memphis railway and rose to lead the nation\'s first Campaign Against lynching.
Wells (1862-1931).
At the center of the national drama is Ida B.
Heralded as a landmark achievement upon publication, 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
