The Light of Truth

In this collection, Wells's anti-lynching crusade comes alive. Through brilliant social analysis, she 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. Wells won international renown for her investigative journalism, leading her on lecture tours around the Northern States and Europe, where she rallied support against lynching. Wells established herself as an advocate for social justice and human dignity by combining irrefutable evidence with deeply personal emotional appeal. This volume is edited and introduced by Wells biographer Mia Bay.

Product details

• Authors: Mia Bay, Henry Louis Gates, Ida Wells, Ida B Wells, Ida B. Wells, Ida B. Wells-Barnett
• Assisted by: Mia Bay (Editor), Henry Louis Gates (Editor), Mia Bay (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.11.2014
• EAN: 9780143106821
• ISBN: 978-0-14-310682-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 197 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Little Black Classics; Penguin Classics; Little Black Classics
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Ethnic Studies, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Diaries, letters and journals, Human rights, civil rights, Black & Asian Studies, Slavery and abolition of slavery, HISTORY / African American & Black