{"product_id":"ida-a-sword-among-lions-ida-b-wells-and-the-campaign-against-lynching-isbn-9780060519216","title":"Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePulitzer Prize Board citation to Ida B. Wells, as an early pioneer of investigative journalism and civil rights icon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom a thinker who Maya Angelou has praised for shining “a brilliant light on the lives of women left in the shadow of history,” comes the definitive biography of Ida B. Wells—crusading journalist and pioneer in the fight for women’s suffrage and against segregation and lynchings\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIda B. Wells was born into slavery and raised in the Victorian age yet emerged—through her fierce political battles and progressive thinking—as the first “modern” black women in the nation’s history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Wells began her activist career when she tried to segregate a first-class railway car in Memphis. After being thrown bodily off the car, she wrote about the incident for black Baptist newspapers, thus beginning her career as a journalist. But her most abiding fight would be the one against lynching, a crime in which she saw all the themes she held most dear coalesce: sexuality, race, and the law.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of towering biographies that tell us as much about America as they do about their subject, \u003cem\u003eIda: A Sword Among Lions\u003c\/em\u003e is a sweepingnarrative about a country and a crusader embroiled in the struggle against lynching: a practice that imperiled not only the lives of blackmen and women, but also a nation based on law and riven by race.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the center of the national drama is Ida B. Wells (1862-1931), born to slaves in Mississippi, who began her activist career by refusing to leave a first-class ladies’ car on a Memphis railway and rose to lead the nation’s firstcampaign against lynching. For Wells the key to the rise in violence was embedded in attitudes not only about black men but about women and sexuality as well. Her independent perspective and percussive personality gained her encomiums as a hero -- as well as aspersions on her character and threats of death. Exiled from the South by 1892, Wells subsequently took her campaign across the country and throughout the British Isles before she married and settled in Chicago, where she continued her activism as a journalist, suffragist, and independent candidate in the rough-and-tumble world of the Windy City’s politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this eagerly awaited biography by Paula J. Giddings, author of the groundbreaking book \u003cem\u003eWhen and Where I Enter,\u003c\/em\u003e which traced the activisthistory of black women in America, the irrepressible personality of Ida B. Wells surges out of the pages. With meticulous research and vivid rendering of her subject, Giddings also provides compelling portraits of twentieth-century progressive luminaries, black and white, with whom Wells worked during some of the most tumultuous periods in American history. Embattled all of her activist life, Wells found herself fighting not only conservative adversaries but icons of the civil rights and women’s suffrage movements who sought to undermine her place in history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this definitive biography, which places Ida B. Wells firmly in the context of her times as well as ours, Giddings at long last gives this visionary reformer her due and, in the process, sheds light on an aspect of our history that isoften left in the shadows.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“The best interpretation of black women and race and sex that we have.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen's Review of Books on When and Where I Enter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A jarringly fresh and challenging interpretation, rather than a simplistic rendering of a single consciousness that would too narrowly define the black woman....A labor of commitment and love.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“History at its best—clear, intelligent, moving. Paula Giddings has written a book as priceless as its subject.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eToni Morrison\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Riveting. . . absorbing. . .meticulous. . . Gidding’s splendid new biography will go a long way toward restoring Wells’s place in the historical record.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistorians will profit from the research [Giddings] has compiled - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiddings set out to write a definitive biography and has succeeded spectacularly. . . .We come to love this brave and wise woman. . . .Read it and weep. Then give it to the last person who told you that ideals are a waste of time - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A groundbreaking biography gives this warrior her due.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eO magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sweeping and timely biographical narrative about Ida B. Wells...a paragon of American history. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEbony\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A hearty thumbs-up for this powerful retelling of her life.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEssence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Paula J. 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Paula Giddings’s monumental achievement restores this extraordinary contrarian to her place as one of the grand pace-setters of American social justice and female empowerment.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Levering Lewis, Pulitzer Prize-Winning biographer of W.E.B. DuBois\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amistad","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889084461285,"sku":"NP9780060519216","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780060519216.jpg?v=1730230476","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/ida-a-sword-among-lions-ida-b-wells-and-the-campaign-against-lynching-isbn-9780060519216","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}