Passionate for justice by catherine meeks overdrive. In her lifetime, she battled sexism, racism, and violence. Born to slaves in mississippi, wells began her activist career by refusing to leave a firstclass ladies car on a memphis railway and rose to lead the nations first campaign against lynching. Long before boycotts, sitins, and freedom rides, ida b. A sword among lions is a sweeping narrative about a country and a crusader embroiled in the struggle against lynchinga practice that imperiled not only the lives of black men and women, but also a nation based on law and riven by race. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. She was one of the founders of the national association for the advancement of colored people naacp. This nonfiction picture book is an excellent choice to share during homeschooling, in particular for children ages 4 to 6. Thoroughly appalled and sickened by the rising numbers of whiteonblack murders in the south since the beginning of reconstruction, and by the unwillingness of local, state and federal governments to prosecute those who were responsible, ida bell wells barnett wrote southern horrors, a pamphlet in which she exposed the horrible reality of lynchings to the rest of the nation and to the world.
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