Ida B. Wells is best known as one of the most influential women in what, at the time, was considered a civil rights movement focused around masculinity. Wells came from humble beginnings and grew to become a journalist and an activist who led an anti-lynching campaign in the South. Throughout her life she met and partnered with notable civil rights leaders in the fight for racial equality. Even though most believe she wasn’t honored properly until recently, one cannot deny the influence she had in
The Dispossessed Following World War I, novels describing utopias gradually decreased in number, until the genre almost went extinct in mid-century, being replaced by dystopias like the famous Nineteen-Eighty-Four written by George Orwell. Later on, in the mid-seventies, fuelled by the upsurge of social reform that began in the late sixties and continued into the new decade, new utopias graced the scene, the most memorable ones being Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia, Samuel R. Delany's Triton, and