To Keep the Waters Troubled

In the generation that followed Frederick Douglass, no African Americanwas more prominent, or more outspoken, than Ida B. Wells. Her crusadeagainst lynching in the 1890s made her famous, or notorious, acrossAmerica, and she was seriously considered as a rival to W.E.B. Du Boisand Booker T. Washington for race leadership. This book is the firstfull biography of Wells, a passionate crusader for black people andwomen--and one who was sometimes torn by her conflicting loyalties torace and gender. We