With 'Ida,' a civil rights pioneer's story is finally told

Ida: A Sword Among Lions By Paula J. Giddings Amistad, 800 pp., $35 Unlike Rosa Parks, the mother of the modern civil rights movement, Ida B. Wells is hardly a household name. But she should be. The "crusader for justice" who launched the campaign against lynching in late 19th-century America, Wells was routinely excised from the historic...

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