James PATTERSON - Alex Cross’s Trial

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett(July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931) was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist and, with her husband, newspaper owner Ferdinand L. Barnett, an early leader in the civil rights movement. She documented lynching in the United States, showing how it was often a way to control or punish blacks who competed with whites. She was active in the women’s rights and the women’s suffrage movement, establishing several notable women’s organizations. Wells was a skilled and persuasive rhetorician, and traveled internationally on lecture tours.

The lives of W. E. B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells often ran along parallel tracks. Both used their journalistic writing to condemn lynching.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens(November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called “the Great American Novel.”

Martha Bulloch Roosevelt(July 8, 1835 – February 14, 1884) was the wife of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., mother of US President Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. A true southern belle, she was affectionately known as Mittie, and is thought to have been one of the inspirations for Scarlett O’Hara.

Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt(July 29, 1861 – February 14, 1884) was the first wife of Theodore Roosevelt (married on October 27, 1880). She died young of an undiagnosed case of kidney failure (in those days called Bright's disease) two days after their daughter Alice Lee Roosevelt was born. Her pregnancy had masked the illness. Theodore’s mother Mittie died of typhoid fever on the same day, at 3:00 am, some eleven hours earlier, in the same house.