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Farrar Straus And Giroux
Mia Bay
To Tell The Truth Freely: The Life Of Ida B Wells
N/A
2010
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Publisher > Farrar Straus And Giroux
Author > Mia Bay
Title > To Tell The Truth Freely: The Life Of Ida B Wells
Issue > N/A
Year > 2010
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ISBN > 9781466803602
Pages > 383
Genre > Biography-And-Autobiography History Nonfiction
Language > English
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Type > RETAIL
Media > BOOK
Format > .epub
Section > eBook
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Published > 2010-02
Release > 2026-08-29
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Born to slaves in 1862 Ida B Wells became a fearless antilynching crusader
womens rights advocate and journalist Wellss 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 In
the richly illustrated To Tell the Truth Freely the historian Mia Bay
vividly captures Wellss legacy and life from her childhood in Mississippi
to her early career in late nineteenthcentury Memphis and her later life in
Progressiveera ChicagoWellss fight for racial and gender justice began in
1883 when she was a young schoolteacher who traveled to her rural
schoolhouse by rail Forcibly ejected from her seat on a train one day on
account of her race Wells immediately sued the railroad Though she
ultimately lost her case on appeal in the Supreme Court of Tennessee the
published account of her
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