Title: Light of Truth
Description: "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' long career as a civil rights activist"--
Subjects: Wells-barnett, ida b., 1862-1931, Lynching, African americans, civil rights, African americans, social conditions, Women's rights, African american women, Social reformers, Civil rights workers, United states, social conditions, Sources, History, African Americans, Civil rights, Social conditions, Race relations, Archives, African American women social reformers, African American women civil rights workers, HISTORY / United States / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations, General, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Ethnic Studies, African American Studies, Discrimination & Race Relations