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Crusade for justice :
Format:
Books
Physical Description
xxxii, 385 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Edition
Second edition.
Production / Publication Information
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
Summary
"Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) is now a Chicago icon and a shining example of fearless grit and truth-telling. Born into slavery, she lost both parents at the age of sixteen and supported five siblings by teaching school. As perhaps the first investigative journalist, she crusaded against lynching and for women's suffrage. She worked with Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony; she co-founded the NAACP and started the Alpha Suffrage Club here in Chicago; she is the first African American woman to have a street named after her in Chicago. This autobiography, edited by Ida B.'s daughter, Afreda Duster, was first published 1970 in a series edited by John Hope Franklin. Alfreda's daughter, Michelle Duster, who has spent years championing her grandmother's memory, has provided a new afterword. We are bringing out the second edition to mark the centennial (June, 2020) of Illinois ratifying the 19th amendment, giving women the vote. Wells was active in the suffrage movement. The new edition has been re-designed and includes four new halftones and a new foreword by Eve Ewing"--
Call Number
MEMOIR / RACE / WELLS
Publication Date
2020
Language
English
ISBN
9780226691428
Crusade for justice :
Format:
Books
Physical Description
xxxii, 434 pages portraits 23 cm.
Production / Publication Information
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1970]
Call Number
BIOGRAPHY WELLS-BARNETT, ID.
Publication Date
1970
Language
English
ISBN
9780226893426
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