They Say: Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race

by James West Davidson

Book Overview

In 'They Say, ' James West Davidson recounts the first thirty years in the passionate life of Ida B. Wells--as well as the story of the great struggle over the meaning of race in post-emancipation America. Davidson captures the breathtaking and often chaotic changes that swept the South as Wells grew up in Holly Springs, Mississippi: the spread of education among free blacks, the rise of political activism, and the bitter struggles for equality in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195160215
• ISBN13: 9780195160215
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.6" x 6.6"