They Say: Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race

by James West Davidson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195160207
• ISBN13: 9780195160208
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.8" x 4.8"