Ida: A Sword Among Lions

Historian Paula J. Giddings tells the life of Ida B. Wells, the journalist and educator who was born into slavery and had reached her late teens by the end of the Civil War. Growing up in Memphis during Reconstruction, Wells wrote as a woman and as a Black woman through the years that followed, and became a leader of the campaign against lynching. Giddings’s biography was published in 2008.