"They Say": Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race (New Narratives in Ameri

Description: Ex-Library book in very good condition Between 1880 and 1930, Southern mobs hanged, burned, and otherwise tortured to death at least 3,300 African Americans. And yet the rest of the nation largely ignored the horror of lynching or took it for granted, until a young schoolteacher from Tennessee raised her voice. Her name was Ida B. Wells. In "They Say," historian James West Davidson recounts the first thirty years of this passionate woman's life--as well as the story of the great struggle over the meaning of race in post-emancipation America. Davidson captures the breathtaking, often chaotic changes that swept the South as Wells grew up in Holly Springs, Mississippi: the spread of education among the free blacks, the rise of political activism, the bitter struggles for equality in the face of entrenched social custom. As Wells came of age she moved to bustling Memphis, eager to worship at the city's many churches (black and white), to take elocution lessons and perform Shakespeare at evening soirees, to court and spark with the young men taken by her beauty. But Wells' quest for fulfillment was thwarted as whites

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Features: Ex-Library

Original Language: English

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Book Title: &Quot;They Say&Quot; : Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race

Item Length: 4.8in

Item Height: 0.9in

Item Width: 6.8in

Author: James West Davidson

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Topic: Discrimination & Race Relations, United States / 19th Century, Civil Rights, Social History, Women's Studies, Social Activists, Educators, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Publication Year: 2007

Genre: Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science, Political Science

Item Weight: 11.2 Oz

Number of Pages: 256 Pages