The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells: An Intimate Portrait of the Activist as a Young Woman

by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Miriam Decosta-Willis (Editor), Mary Helen Washington (Foreword), and Dorothy Sterling (Afterword)

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Published for the first time in its century, this "meticulously edited contribution to the study of American women's diaries and late-19th-century women's and black history" (Kirkus Reviews) offers an intimate look at the hopes, thoughts and day-to-day life of the young woman who would later become the celebrated civil rights activist and antilynching crusader.
  • ISBN10 0807070653
  • ISBN13 9780807070659
  • Publish Date 31 October 1995
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 30 September 2010
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Beacon Press