{"product_id":"ida-a-sword-among-lions-9780060797362","title":"Ida: A Sword Among Lions","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGiddings, Paula J.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003ePaula J. Giddings is the Elizabeth A. Woodson 1922 Professor in Afro-American Studies at Smith College and the author of \u003cem\u003eWhen and Where I Enter\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eIn Search of Sisterhood\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amistad Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50620395782418,"sku":"9780060797362","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5a805ef8-2617-4f18-a29c-914c87909853.jpg?v=1732565248","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ida-a-sword-among-lions-9780060797362","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}