By Mia Bay (NHC Fellow, 2009–10)
New York: Hill and Wang, 2009
From the publisher’s description:
Born to slaves in 1862, Ida B. Wells became a fearless antilynching crusader, women's rights advocate, and journalist. Wells's refusal to accept any compromise on racial inequality caused her to be labeled a "dangerous radical" in her day but made her a model for later civil rights activists as well as a powerful witness to the troubled racial politics of her era. Though she eventually helped found the NAACP in 1910, she would not remain a member for long, as she rejected not only Booker T. Washington's accommodationism but also the moderating influence of white reformers within the early NAACP. In the richly illustrated To Tell the Truth Freely, the historian Mia Bay vividly captures Wells's legacy and life, from her childhood in Mississippi to her early career in late-nineteenth-century Memphis and her later life in Progressive-era Chicago.
Subjects
History / African American History / American Civil Rights Movement / Jim Crow Laws / National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) / Reconstruction Era / Ida B. Wells /Bay, Mia (NHC Fellow, 2009–10). To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells. New York: Hill and Wang, 2009.