A biography of the black woman journalist who campaigned for the civil rights of women and other minorities and was a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909.
Examines the life and legacy of women's rights advocate, anti-lynching crusader, and journalist Ida B. Wells, from her birth to slaves in Mississippi in 1862 to her death in Chicago in 1931.
a sword among lions : Ida B. Wells and the campaign against lynching
Giddings, Paula
2009
Chronicles the life of civil rights advocate and suffragist Ida B. Wells, examining her campaign against lynching, her work as a journalist, and her experiences in Chicago politics.
Text and accompanying photographs describe the life of the black woman journalist who was born into slavery and conducted a lifelong crusade for the civil rights of various minorities.
Tells the stories of some of the African-American women who played major roles in the Civil Rights Movement, as founders, lawyers, leaders, and behind-the-scenes workers.
Profiles Rosa Parks, who, in 1955 Alabama, refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus, and thereby sparked the bus boycott that made Martin Luther King, Jr., famous and helped end the Jim Crow laws.
The sixth in Maya Angelou's autobiographical series, beginning in 1964 when she returned to the U.S. from Africa to work with Malcolm X, discussing her reaction to his assassination, her firsthand view of the Watts riots, her subsequent work with Martin Luther King Jr., and the impact of his death on her life and career.
