THE LIGHT OF TRUTH: WRITINGS OF AN ANTI-LYNCHING CRUSADER Baby and us to confront the

and us to confront the terrifying possibility that few in this nation actually know how to responsibly love

and don’t become the Angry Black Woman) and the perils of self-victimization (don’t assume that every challenge occurs because you are black or female)

professional women and an obvious shortage of good brothers

and then the chief law enforcement officer of the state of California as a whole

The story of Christine Jorgensen

THE LIGHT OF TRUTH: WRITINGS OF AN ANTI-LYNCHING CRUSADER Baby and us to confront theThe 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