Ida Wells

Broschiertes Buch

The Light of Truth

Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader

Herausgeber: Bay, Mia

Beschreibung

Through brilliant social analysis, the author exposed lynching as part of a larger framework of subjugation in which white people used violence as a deliberate tactic to combat black economic progress in the southern USA. This book tells her story.

Autor

Ida B. Wells (1862–1931) was born a slave in Holly Springs, Mississippi. She grew up to be a journalist who fought to expose the injustice of lynching through her writing, lecturing, and political activism. Mia Bay is Professor of History at Rutgers University and Director of the Rutgers Center for Race and Ethnicity. She lives in New York City. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Produktdetails

• Penguin Publishing Group
• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 626
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 128mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9780143106821
• ISBN-10: 0143106821
• Artikelnr.: 40542025