The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader

The broadest and most comprehensive collection of writings available by an early civil and women’s rights pioneer

Seventy-one years before Rosa Parks’s courageous act of resistance, police dragged a young black journalist named Ida B. Wells off a train for refusing to give up her seat. The experience shaped Wells’s career, and—when hate crimes touched her life personally—she mounted what was to become her life’s work: an anti-lynching crusade that captured international attention.

This volume covers the entire scope of Wells’s remarkable career, collecting her early writings, articles exposing the horrors of lynching, essays from her travels abroad, and her later journalism. The Light of Truth is both an invaluable resource for study and a testament to Wells’s long career as a civil rights activist.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

• Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching
• Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells (Negro American Biographies and Autobiographies)
• Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
• The Massacre at El Mozote
• The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States
• Three Classic African-American Novels : Clotel, Iola Leroy, The Marrow of Tradition (Vintage Classics)
• The Classic Slave Narratives
• The Journalist and the Murderer
• Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
• Hiroshima (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Hersey (2002-02-28)