<div><b>The broadest and most comprehensive collection of writings available by an early civil and women’s rights pioneer</b><br><br> 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.<br><br> 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. <i>The Light of Truth </i>is both an invaluable resource for study and a testament to Wells’ long career as a civil rights activist.</div>