num_pages: 176
description: Called a dangerous negro agitator by the FBI and a brave woman by Frederick Douglass an inspiring biography of the American pioneer by Ida B. Wellss great-granddaughter Michelle Duster.Winner of a 2020 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation Ida B. Wells was born enslaved in Holly Springs Mississippi in 1862. In this inspiring and accessible biography Duster tells the incredible story of Wellss life including stories from her childhood in Mississippi her famous refusal to give up her seat on a ladies train car in Memphis and her later work as a pioneering journalist and anti-lynching crusader. Overlooked and underestimated Wells would single-handedly change the course of American history and come to inspire millions. Ida B. the Queen shines a bright light on one of the most extraordinary women in history.
language: English
title: Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells
publisher: Atria/One Signal Publishers