num_pages: 240
description: Published for the first time in its century, this "meticulously edited contribution to the study of American women's diaries and late-19th-century women's and black history" ( Kirkus Reviews)  offers an intimate look at the hopes, thoughts and day-to-day life of the young woman who would later become the celebrated civil rights activist and antilynching crusader.
language: English
title: The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells: An Intimate Portrait of the Activist as a Young Woman
titlecomplete: The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells: An Intimate Portrait of the Activist as a Young Woman (Black Women Writers Series)
characters: Ida B. Wells
genres: Autobiography, Historical, History, Race, American History, African American, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Womens
ratings_count: 62
places: Memphis, Tennessee
publisher: Beacon Press