The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader

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The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader - Paperback

The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader - Paperback

by Ida B. Wells
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by Ida B. Wells (Author), Mia Bay (Editor), Mia Bay (Introduction by)

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's long career as a civil rights activist.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author Biography

Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) was born a slave in Holly Springs, Mississippi. She grew up to be a journalist who fought to expose the injustice of lynching through her writing, lecturing, and political activism.

Mia Bay is Professor of History at Rutgers University and Director of the Rutgers Center for Race and Ethnicity. She lives in New York City.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Number of Pages: 624
Dimensions: 1.2 x 7.6 x 5 IN
Publication Date: November 25, 2014
ISBN9780143106821
Author Ida B. Wells
PublisherPenguin Classics
GenreHistory and Education
FormatPaperback
PublishedNovember 2014
LanguageENG- English
Pages624
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) was an African American journalist, newspaper editor, and abolitionist. Alfreda M. Duster (1904-1983), daughter of Ida B. Wells, was a social worker, mother, and civic leader in Chicago.

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