Ida B. the Queen av Michelle Duster

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<b>Journalist. Suffragist. Antilynching crusader. In 1862, Ida B. Wells was born enslaved in Holly Springs, Mississippi. In 2020, she won a Pulitzer Prize. </b><BR><BR>Ida B. Wells committed herself to the needs of those who did not have power. In the eyes of the FBI, this made her a “dangerous negro agitator.” In the annals of history, it makes her an icon.<BR><BR><i>Ida B. the Queen</i> tells the awe-inspiring story of an pioneering woman who was often overlooked and underestimated—a woman who refused to exit a train car meant for white passengers; a woman brought to light the horrors of lynching in America; a woman who cofounded the NAACP. Written by Wells’s great-granddaughter Michelle Duster, this “warm remembrance of a civil rights icon” (<i>Kirkus Reviews</i>) is a unique visual celebration of Wells’s life, and of the Black experience.<BR><BR> A century after her death, Wells’s genius is being celebrated in popular culture by polit