TY - BOOK ID - 92873924 TI - Crusade for justice : the autobiography of Ida B. Wells AU - Wells-Barnett, Ida B. AU - Duster, Alfreda AU - Duster, Michelle AU - Ewing, Eve L. PY - 2020 SN - 9780226691428 9780226691565 PB - Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, DB - UniCat KW - African American women KW - African American women. KW - Wells-Barnett, Ida B., KW - Sociology of minorities KW - Wells, Ida B. KW - United States KW - United States of America KW - Slavery KW - Autobiography KW - Women KW - Blackness KW - Book KW - Abolitionism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:92873924 AB - "Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) is now a Chicago icon and a shining example of fearless grit and truth-telling. Born into slavery, she lost both parents at the age of sixteen and supported five siblings by teaching school. As perhaps the first investigative journalist, she crusaded against lynching and for women's suffrage. She worked with Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony; she co-founded the NAACP and started the Alpha Suffrage Club here in Chicago; she is the first African American woman to have a street named after her in Chicago. This autobiography, edited by Ida B.'s daughter, Afreda Duster, was first published 1970 in a series edited by John Hope Franklin. Alfreda's daughter, Michelle Duster, who has spent years championing her grandmother's memory, has provided a new afterword. We are bringing out the Second Edition to mark the centennial (June, 2020) of Illinois ratifying the 19th amendment, giving women the vote. Wells was active in the suffrage movement. The new edition has been re-designed and includes four new halftones and a new foreword by Eve Ewing"-- ER -