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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 nineteenth-century Memphis and her later life in Progressive-era Chicago. Wellss 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 legal challenge to Jim Crow changed her life, propelling her into a career as an outspoken journalist and social activist. Also a fierce critic of the racial violence that marked her era, Wells went on to launch a crusade ag

Author

Mia Bay

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780809016464

Subjects

Political Science, History, Biography

Rating

3.92 / 5 (78 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13