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

by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143106821
• ISBN13: 9780143106821
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.0" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher