{"product_id":"ida-a-sword-among-lions-9780060797362","title":"Ida: A Sword Among Lions","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Paula J. Giddings\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Amistad Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Amistad Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Cultural \u0026amp; Regional\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePulitzer Prize Board citation to Ida B. Wells, as an early pioneer of investigative journalism and civil rights icon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom a thinker who Maya Angelou has praised for shining \"a brilliant light on the lives of women left in the shadow of history,\" comes the definitive biography of Ida B. Wells--crusading journalist and pioneer in the fight for women's suffrage and against segregation and lynchings\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIda B. Wells was born into slavery and raised in the Victorian age yet emerged--through her fierce political battles and progressive thinking--as the first \"modern\" black women in the nation's history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Wells began her activist career when she tried to segregate a first-class railway car in Memphis. After being thrown bodily off the car, she wrote about the incident for black Baptist newspapers, thus beginning her career as a journalist. But her most abiding fight would be the one against lynching, a crime in which she saw all the themes she held most dear coalesce: sexuality, race, and the law.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amistad Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45355838636183,"sku":"9780060797362","price":1441.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780060797362.webp?v=1767671211","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/ida-a-sword-among-lions-9780060797362","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}