The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader

The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader

The broadest and most comprehensive collection of writings available by an early civil and womenâ€™s rights pioneer

Seventy-one years before Rosa Parksâ€™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 Wellsâ€™s career, andâ€”when hate crimes touched her life personallyâ€”she mounted what was to become her lifeâ€™s work: an anti-lynching crusade that captured international attention.

This volume covers the entire scope of Wellsâ€™s remarkable career, collecting her early writings, articles exposing the horrors of lynching, essays from her travels abroad, and her later journalism.Â The Light of TruthÂ is both an invaluable resource for study and a testament to Wellsâ€™s long career as a civil rights activist.

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.

From the Trade Paperback edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Penguin Classics
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-11-25
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Penguin Classics
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-11-25
Format	Kindle eBook

The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader

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