Giddings, Paula. <br/><br/>
Ida :  a sword among lions : Ida B. Wells and the campaign against lynching / 
 Sword among lions  Ida B. Wells and the campaign against lynching 
Paula J. Giddings. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York, N.Y. :  Amistad,  2008. 
 - xii, 800 p., [16] p. of plates :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Holly Springs -- The new city and the ladies' car -- A breath of life, a winter of discontent -- Love and trouble -- A race in my arms -- City of the three murdered men -- Exodus -- "The truth about lynching" -- The loveliest lynchee was our Lord -- Light from a human torch -- St. Joan and Old Man Eloquent -- Exile no more -- "Let us confer together" -- Undivided duty -- Mobocracy in America -- Bull in the china shop -- Chicago and the wizard -- Calls -- Smoldering bridges -- The ladies' band -- The Alpha Suffrage Club -- Unsafe for democracy -- Known race agitator -- Prisoners of war -- Unfriendly takeovers -- The price of liberty. 
<br/><br/> Traces the life and legacy of the nineteenth-century activist and pioneer, documenting her birth into slavery, her career as a journalist and a pioneer for civil rights and suffrage, and her determination to counter lynching. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780060519216 :  $35.00 0060519215 :  $35.00 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>African American women--Biography.<br/>African American women civil rights workers--Biography.<br/>African American women social reformers--Biography.<br/>Lynching.<br/>Civil rights--United States--Biography.<br/>Journalists--United States--Biography.<br/>Lynching--History.--United States
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Race relations.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E 185.97.W55  / G53 2008