Ebook: The light of truth: writings of an anti-lynching crusader
Author: Bay Mia, Gates Henry Louis, Wells-Barnett Ida B
- Tags: Femmes défenseurs des droits de l'homme noires américaines, Femmes--Droits--Histoire--Sources--États-Unis, Lynchage--Histoire--Sources--États-Unis, Noirs américains--Conditions sociales--Jusqu'à 1964, Noirs américains--Droits--Histoire--Sources, Réformatrices sociales noires américaines, Biography, Livres numériques, Wells-Barnett Ida B. -- 1862-1931 -- Archives, Lynchage -- Histoire -- Sources -- États-Unis, Noirs américains -- Droits -- Histoire -- Sources, Noirs américains -- Conditions sociales -- Ju
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
- City: États-Unis
- Language: English
- epub
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.
For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500...
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.
For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500...
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