The Light of Truth
Author: Wells, Ida
ISBN: 9780143106821
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 28 Jan 2015
Pages: 624
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;bPgt;A comprehensive collection of writings from journalist, lecturer, anti-lynching activist, and early civil rights advocate Ida B. Wells. This is the latest addition to the African American classics series edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., featuring Plt;iPgt;Twelve Years a SlavePlt;/iPgt;.Plt;/bPgt;
Plt;bPgt;The broadest and most comprehensive collection of writings available by an early civil and womenP#8217;s rights pioneerPlt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Seventy-one years before Rosa ParksP#8217;s courageous act of resistance, police dragged a young black journalist named Ida B. Wells off a train for refusing to give up her seat. The experience shaped WellsP#8217;s career, andP#8212;when hate crimes touched her life personallyP#8212;she mounted what was to become her lifeP#8217;s work: an anti-lynching crusade that captured international attention.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;This volume covers the entire scope of WellsP#8217;s remarkable career, collecting her early writings, articles exposing the horrors of lynching, essays from her travels abroad, and her later journalism.P#160;Plt;iPgt;The Light of TruthP#160;Plt;/iPgt;is both an invaluable resource for study and a testament to WellsP#8217;s long career as a civil rights activist.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
ISBN: 9780143106821
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 28 Jan 2015
Pages: 624
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;bPgt;A comprehensive collection of writings from journalist, lecturer, anti-lynching activist, and early civil rights advocate Ida B. Wells. This is the latest addition to the African American classics series edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., featuring Plt;iPgt;Twelve Years a SlavePlt;/iPgt;.Plt;/bPgt;
Plt;bPgt;The broadest and most comprehensive collection of writings available by an early civil and womenP#8217;s rights pioneerPlt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Seventy-one years before Rosa ParksP#8217;s courageous act of resistance, police dragged a young black journalist named Ida B. Wells off a train for refusing to give up her seat. The experience shaped WellsP#8217;s career, andP#8212;when hate crimes touched her life personallyP#8212;she mounted what was to become her lifeP#8217;s work: an anti-lynching crusade that captured international attention.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;This volume covers the entire scope of WellsP#8217;s remarkable career, collecting her early writings, articles exposing the horrors of lynching, essays from her travels abroad, and her later journalism.P#160;Plt;iPgt;The Light of TruthP#160;Plt;/iPgt;is both an invaluable resource for study and a testament to WellsP#8217;s long career as a civil rights activist.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
