{"product_id":"book-1m1a","title":"Ida: A Sword Among Lions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePulitzer Prize Board citation to Ida B. Wells, as an early pioneer of investigative journalism and civil rights icon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom a thinker who Maya Angelou has praised for shining \"a brilliant light on the lives of women left in the shadow of history,\" comes the definitive biography of Ida B. Wells-crusading journalist and pioneer in the fight for women's suffrage and against segregation and lynchings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIda B. Wells was born into slavery and raised in the Victorian age yet emerged-through her fierce political battles and progressive thinking-as the first \"modern\" black women in the nation's history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWells began her activist career when she tried to segregate a first-class railway car in Memphis. After being thrown bodily off the car, she wrote about the incident for black Baptist newspapers, thus beginning her career as a journalist. But her most abiding fight would be the one against lynching, a crime in which she saw all the themes she held most dear coalesce: sexuality, race, and the law.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":67366854230320,"sku":"ZE1m1a","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":67366854263088,"sku":"ZM1m1a","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook [BD]","offer_id":67366854295856,"sku":"BD1m1a","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-1m1a","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}