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Giddings, Paula.

Ida : a sword among lions : Ida B. Wells and the campaign against lynching / Paula J. Giddings.

1st ed.

New York, N.Y. : Amistad, 2008.

xii, 800 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

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.

Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931.

Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931.

Wells-Barnett, Ida B. 1862-1931

Wells-Barnett, Ida B.

Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931.

Wells-Barnett, Ida B.

Geschichte

African American women -- Biography.

African American women civil rights workers -- Biography.

African American women social reformers -- Biography.

Lynching.

Noires américaines -- Biographies.

Défenseuses des droits de l'homme noires américaines -- Biographies.

Réformatrices sociales noires américaines -- Biographies.

Lynchage.

African American women.

African American women civil rights workers.

African American women social reformers.

Lynching.

Race relations.

Lynchjustiz

activisme -- Afro-Américain (peuple) -- lynchage -- Etats-Unis -- 19e s. (fin) -- 20e s. (début)

Civil rights -- United States -- Biography.

Journalists -- United States -- Biography.

Lynching -- United States -- History.

United States -- Race relations.

États-Unis -- Relations raciales.

United States.

USA -- Südstaaten

United States -- Race relations.

Biographie.

collective biographies.

Biographies.

Biographies.

Biographies.

Sword among lions

Ida B. Wells and the campaign against lynching

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ALA Black Caucus Award, 2009 (Nonfiction)

Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, 2008

Sword among lions -- 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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