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Born to slaves in 1862, Ida B. Wells became a fearless antilynching crusader, women's rights advocate, and journalist. Wells's refusal to accept any compromise on racial inequality caused her to be labeled a "dangerous radical" in her day but made her a model for later civil rights activists as well as a powerful witness to the troubled racial politics of her era. Though she eventually helped found the NAACP in 1910, she would not remain a member for long, as she rejected not only Booker T. Washington's accommodationism but also the moderating influence of white reformers within the early NAACP. In the richly illustrated To Tell the Truth Freely, the historian Mia Bay vividly captures Wells's legacy and life, from her childhood in Mississippi to her early career in late-nineteenth-century Memphis and her later life in Progressive-era Chicago.
- Sales Rank: #349741 in Books
- Published on: 2010-02-02
- Released on: 2010-02-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .85" w x 5.50" l, .74 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 384 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Bay (The White Image in the Black Mind) delineates journalist and antilynching crusader Ida B. Wellss life (1862–1931) and her passionate commitment to a range of causes so extensive that they defy easy summary. When her parents died in 1878, 16-year-old Wells became the head of her family, caring for her five siblings. After a brief stint teaching, she found her two callings—political activism and, more powerfully, journalism, becoming by the late 1880s one of the most prolific and well-known black female journalists of her day. In 1884, she sued the Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad over segregated cars; in 1889, she became part owner and editor of the Memphis Free Speech newspaper. In 1892, catalyzed by the lynching of three black businessmen, she devoted herself to an anti-lynching campaign that would cost her the Memphis newspaper, threaten her life, and sever her ties to Memphis forever. Bay relies heavily on Wellss published writing, especially her posthumous autobiography, Crusade for Justice, supplemented by secondary sources, making this a useful book for students. The perilous edge that Wells traversed, however, is blunted; she led a life full of drama, but Bays quotidian account is an utterly unexciting summary. (Feb.)
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Review
“Mia Bay . . . brings dimension to history's minimalist portrait of [Ida B. Wells] in her insightful new biography . . . Bay's book gives credit where it's long overdue.” ―Sandy Nelson, The Santa Fe New Mexican
“In the richly illustrated To Tell the Truth Freely, the historian Mia Bay vividly captures Wells's legacy and life, from her childhood in Mississippi to her early career in late nineteenth-century Memphis and her later life in Progressive-era Chicago.” ―The African American Book Review
“This well-researched book . . . should be useful to both mass communication scholars and a general audience, thanks to Bay's fluid writing style, attention to details, and facts.” ―Jinx Coleman Broussard, Journalism History
“In this remarkable book, Mia Bay understands Ida B. Wells in full--as thinker, writer, crusader, politician, and woman of the world. Finally, we have a biography worthy of one of the bravest and most influential activists in U.S. history.” ―Michael Kazin, author of A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan
“Ida B. Wells is one of America's most important yet relatively unknown historical figures. Absorbing and insightful, To Tell the Truth Freely deftly chronicles the way in which her extraordinary life and career altered the evolution of race and democracy in late nineteenth- and early twentieth century America.” ―Peniel E. Joseph, author of Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
“Mia Bay's biography of Ida B. Wells is as sharp and sassy as the woman herself. The vigilance and bravado of this dynamic black woman crusader shines through on every page. Bay's triumphant tapestry reveals the life and times of an unsung heroine woven into battles for African American freedom.” ―Catherine Clinton, author of Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
“At last--an eloquent, concise, yet richly detailed account of Ida B. Wells. Beautifully crafted, this book restores Wells to her rightful place in American political history by telling her story with verve and grace.” ―Barbara D. Savage, author of Your Spirits Walk Beside Us: The Politics of Black Religion
“Superb . . . Having been squeezed out of a role in national civil and women's rights organizations, Wells lost a prominent place in the historical record. It took several generations before her relentless and often discomforting agitation for social justice received the appreciation it deserved, as scholars over the last twenty years gradually reestablished her place in history. Mia Bay's lucid biography contributes enormously to this project.” ―Andrew Feffer, History News Network
About the Author
Mia Bay is an associate professor of history at Rutgers University and the associate director of Rutgers's Center for Race and Ethnicity. This is her second book.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
A Civil Rights Pioneer
By Robin Friedman
Ida B. Wells (1862 - 1931) was one of the first individuals to expose and oppose the lynching that became prevalent in the South and elsewhere in the years following Reconstruction. In the latter part of her life and for many years thereafter, Wells's life and accomplishments were in danger of being overlooked and marginalized. With the publication of her autobiography, "Crusade for Justice" (1971) and of her other writings together with several biographies, Ida Wells has since the 1970s been receiving overdue recognition. Mia Bay's recent biography, "To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells" (2009) offers a solid if dry account of Wells's life and accomplishments. Bay, associate professor of history at Rutgers University, is the associate director of Rutgers's Center for Race and Ethnicity and the author of "The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas About White People, 1830- 1925".
Wells's parents were slaves when she was born at Holly Springs, Mississippi. With the end of the Civil War, her parents became activists in support of Reconstruction, which became the dominant influence on her life. When Wells was 16, her mother and father and two siblings died in a Yellow Fever epidemic. Wells became a rural schoolteacher to support her remaining younger sisters. She attended college sporadically but was expelled from Rusk College in 1881 for reasons which remain obscure.
As a young woman, Wells moved to Memphis where she taught school and gradually found her way to writing and journalism using the name "Iola". Wells also filed a lawsuit against a railroad for forcing her to sit in a segregated, Jim Crow car. She ultimately lost her case on appeal. The defining moment of Wells's life occurred in 1892 when three male acquaintances in Memphis were lynched. Wells' investigated the lynchings and similar occurrences in the South and wrote about them in her paper. Wells rejected the claim of the apologists for lynching that the practice resulted from the rape of white women by black men. Wells wrote that lynching was instead a power move designed to keep African Americans in fear and servitude. But Southerners found particularly inflammatory Wells's findings that when sexual relationships between black men and white women occurred, these relationships tended to be clandestine, but consensual. She was forced to leave Memphis and lost all her property.
Moving to New York City, Wells became both famous and notorious. She worked with Frederick Douglass in protesting the exclusion of African Americans from participation or recognition in the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair. She prepared a pamphlet for distribution during the Fair documenting the evils of lynching. She also made two trips to England where she was instrumental in organizing an anti-lynching society among the successors of the British abolitionist movement.
Following the Worlds Fair, Wells remained in Chicago and married a successful attorney, Ferdinand Barnett, with whom she had four children. She remained politically active for the rest of her life, but her fame was eclipsed by Booker T. Washington and then by W.E.B. DuBois. Wells helped found the NAACP, but her abrasive, confrontational and independent personality, together with her gender, denied her a leadership role in this or other national civil rights organizations. But she continued her crusade against lynching and was an activist in protecting the rights of the many African Americans pouring into Chicago as part of the Great Migration.
Bay offers a thorough and a sympathetic portrayal of Wells which draws on the autobiography and on Wells's other writings. Bay is good in showing Wells's relationships to other African American and feminist leaders, including Douglass, Washington, DuBois, and Susan B. Anthony, who counseled Wells against her marriage. Bay also writes with insight about how Wells's activist approach to African American rights was at odds with Booker T. Washington's accomodationist approach and with the subsequent approach of the NAACP which sought to vindicate African American civil rights through litigation and through legislation. Bay emphasizes, as she should, the role of gender in denying Wells a position of leadership within the African American community. But Bay's own text makes clear how tough and difficult Wells could be, even with her allies. Wells's own irascibility and temper seem at least as responsible for her independent status as was her gender.
I learned a great deal about Wells from this book, but I sensed a fire in the woman which Bay does not entirely capture. The book is well-documented and footnoted but lacks a bibliography. On the whole, Bay's book is effective in telling the story of an inspiring American who deserves to be remembered and admired.
Robin Friedman
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Review of TO TELL THE TRUTH FREELY: THE LIFE OF IDA B WELLS, by Mia Bay
By Aundine
This is an astounding, well written book! I am about 4 chapters away from completion; however, I could not WAIT to give my opinion. I hate putting this book down!
As a playwright of historical (specifically black females in history) subjects, I am constantly seeking out great, detailed bios. (Many are often very dry and that's just par for the course with some history.) I own Wells' CRUSADER FOR JUSTICE and THE MEMPHIS DIARY, the first being Ida's bio and the second being a compilation of the diaries she kept while living in Memphis between 1885 and 1893. I'm blown away by how it's possible that this book completely leaves both of those books like dust on a deserted road when it comes to details. I own Paula Gidding's IDA: A SWORD AMONG LIONS. I waited for it in anticipation. It got great reviews. Well, this book tramples it into bits!
This book covers every aspect of Ida's world from her youth in Memphis, to what shaped her into the crusader she became. With Well's bio, she is still quite guarded and protective. I was a little frustrated, because there were details she left out of very valuable parts of her world. Wells was intricate in her description of her journeys to Europe to campaign against lynching; however, she seemed to refuse revealing how she met her husband, how they fell in love. She would comment in-depth regarding her writings and literature when it came to getting the word out on her crusade; however, she refused to give us details concerning outside reaction and commentary from the people around her. We learn that she was exiled from Memphis for her views and specifically the editorial she wrote concerning the lynching of her three friends, however, we aren't made privy to how she felt about leaving her home, which was of course devastating. This book provides those answers and fills in the gaps! Bay doesn't make up explanations. She pieces answers together from letters and surrounding circumstances that Ida was unwilling to reveal.
Reading this book is like shining a light between the lines of all the other books about Ida that tried very much to tell the story of this dynamic and incredible woman so blandly. Bay has a way of revealing each details making this book a page turner.
I had respect for Ida as a woman who attempted to shape a better world, but there were parts of me left cold by her evasive protectiveness. This book shattered that cold. I feel as though I'm getting a chance to really get to not know, but understand her passion. My basic respect has been warmed by true adoration.... because of this book....
If you can't tell, I highly recommend this book! If you love history and love learning the `little things', get this book. I guarantee you will want to send me flowers later for the recommendation!
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Long overdue!
By Coreen Borisy
Having grown up in Chicago I was aware of Ida's name, knew she was a freedom fighter, but knew little about her life, background, or achievements. The author has been very t thorough in showing what an intelligent and feisty woman Ida was. She also gives an excellent depiction of the people, times, and political climate which Ida grew up and lived in.
Other leaders of the time are mentioned who fought for the same causes as Ida, however there's far too much repitition. Although I finished the book, 3/4 of the way through it, I'd had enough. The author repeats some of the same phrases, each time saying that Ida fought the "rape" issue. She fought for more than that no matter how she couched her objections to the race inequalities.
I was amazed at Ida's tenacity, energy (even while raising a family) and ability to get up when knocked down and start all over. I certainly understand why she wasn't liked by many people. She truly was like a "dog with a bone". It's just a shame that her life isn't studied by more young black people. Her example is certainly more admirable than some of today's athletes idolized by young boys and girls. Even today, there are countless black men and women who are doctors, lawyers, scientists, and inventors.
More people to know about (and that's whites and blacks) other than Martin L. King.
My book club chose for each member to read any book about ida so when we come together we'll discuss what we found out, etc.. And by the way, I and the other members are all Caucasian.
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