The broadest and most comprehensive collection of writings available by an early civil and women’s rights pioneer Seventy-one years before Rosa Parks’s courageous act of resistance, police dragged a young black journalist named Ida B. Wells off a train for refusing to give up her seat. The experience shaped Wells’s career, and—when hate crimes touched her life personally—she mounted what was to become her life’s work: an anti-lynching crusade that captured international attention. This volume covers the entire scope of Wells’s remarkable career, collecting her early writings, articles exposing the horrors of lynching, essays from her travels abroad, and her later journalism. The Light of Truth is both an invaluable resource for study and a testament to Wells’s long career as a civil rights activist. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader

History

Wells, Ida B.

Americas

Penguin Classics

Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) was one of the foremost crusaders against black oppression. This engaging memoir tells of her private life as mother of a growing family as well as her public activities as teacher, lecturer, and journalist in her fight against attitudes and laws oppressing blacks. 
"No student of black history should overlook Crusade for Justice."—William M. Tuttle, Jr., Journal of American History 
"Besides being the story of an incredibly courageous and outspoken black woman in the face of innumerable odds, the book is a valuable contribution to the social history of the United States and to the literature of the women's movement as well."—Elizabeth Kolmer, American Quarterly 
"[Wells was] a sophisticated fighter whose prose was as though as her intellect."—Walter Goodman, New York Times 
"An illuminating narrative of a zealous, race-conscious, civic- and church-minded black woman reformer, whose life story is a significant chapter in the history of Negro-White relations."—Thelma D. Perry, Negro History Bulletin 
Alfreda M. Duster, who died in 1983, was the daughter of Ida B. Wells and Ferdinand L. Barnett, the first black state's attorney in Illinois.

Crusade for justice;: The autobiography of Ida B. Wells (Negro American biographies and autobiographies)

Biographies & Memoirs

Duster, Alfreda M. (ed)

Community & Culture

Univ of Chicago Pr

Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) was one of the foremost crusaders against black oppression. This engaging memoir tells of her private life as mother of a growing family as well as her public activities as teacher, lecturer, and journalist in her fight against attitudes and laws oppressing blacks. "No student of black history should overlook Crusade for Justice."—William M. Tuttle, Jr., Journal of American History "Besides being the story of an incredibly courageous and outspoken black woman in the face of innumerable odds, the book is a valuable contribution to the social history of the United States and to the literature of the women's movement as well."—Elizabeth Kolmer, American Quarterly "[Wells was] a sophisticated fighter whose prose was as thorough as her intellect."—Walter Goodman, New York Times "An illuminating narrative of a zealous, race-conscious, civic- and church-minded black woman reformer, whose life story is a significant chapter in the history of Negro-White relations."—Thelma D. Perry, Negro History Bulletin

Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells (Negro American Biographies and Autobiographies)

University of Chicago Press

America's History 5e V2 & Does The Frontier Experience Make America Exceptional? &Southern Horrors and Other Writings & Confronting Southern Poverty ... & Movements of the New Left 1950-1975

Dumenil, Lynn

Henretta, James A.

Etulain, Richard W.

Brody, David

Royster, Jacqueline Jones

Gosse, Van

Literature & Fiction

Bedford/St.Martin's

The American Promise Compact 2e V2 & Reading the American Past 2e V2 & My Lai & Southern Horrors

ROBERTS, Randy

Johnson, Michael P.

Roark, James L.

Stage, Sarah

Cohen, Patricia Cline

Lawson, Alan

Hartmann, Susan M.

Olson, James S.

Southern Horrors and Other Writings & Black Protest and the Great Migration & Age of McCarthyism

Arnesen, Eric

Schrecker, Ellen

American Promise: A Compact History 4e & Reading the American Past V1 & V2 & New York Conspiracy Trials of 1741 & Southern Horrors and Other Writings

Zabin, Serena R.

IDA B. WELLS VERSUS JUDGE LYNCH: The Anti-Lynching Trilogy This book contains three separate works from anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells. At the conclusion of the three volumes, the reader will find an array of photographs depicting lynching victims. This book contains the following works of Ida B. Wells: 1) Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, [1892]. 2) The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States, [1895]. 3) Mob Rule in New Orleans, [1900].

Ida B. Wells Versus Judge Lynch: The Anti-Lynching Trilogy

Politics & Social Sciences

Mitchell, Joe Henry

Social Sciences

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

"Mob Rule in New Orleans" from Ida B. Wells. Ida B. Wells, african-american journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist and sociologist (1863-1931).

Mob Rule in New Orleans (Perfect Library)

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"The Red Record" from Ida B. Wells. Ida B. Wells, african-american journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist and sociologist (1863-1931).

The Red Record (Perfect Library)

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