Ida B. Wells: Let the Truth Be Told

by Walter Dean Myers

Book Overview

This picture book biography introduces the extraordinary Ida B. Wells. Long before boycotts, sit-ins, and freedom rides, Ida B. Wells was hard at work to better the lives of African Americans.

An activist, educator, writer, journalist, suffragette, and pioneering voice against the horror of lynching, she used fierce determination and the power of the pen to educate the world about the unequal treatment of blacks in the United...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 006027705X
• ISBN13: 9780060277055
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Amistad Books for Young Readers
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3