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Ida B. Wells. Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931) was an American investigative journalist, sociologist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). [1] Wells dedicated her career to combating prejudice and ...
Sep 29, 2024 · Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an American journalist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. She later was active in promoting justice for African Americans and founded (1910) what was possibly the first Black women’s suffrage group, Chicago’s Alpha Suffrage Club.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a prominent journalist, activist, and researcher, in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries. In her lifetime, she battled sexism, racism, and violence. As a skilled writer, Wells-Barnett also used her skills as a journalist to shed light on the conditions of African Americans throughout the South.
Ida B. Wells was not yet three when the Civil War ended and slavery was abolished, so she had no personal memory of being enslaved. But she heard her parents’ stories and saw the scars on her mother’s back from beatings she had suffered. Slavery was a stark reality for Ida, but her own childhood was spent in, and shaped by, Reconstruction. ...
May 11, 2023 · Ida B. Wells, born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi, in 1862, was an African American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. With a life marked by tenacity and courage, Wells emerged as one of the most groundbreaking activists of her time, tirelessly combating racism and sexism.
Ida B. Wells was known nationally and internationally as a “crusader for justice.” She traveled throughout the United States and foreign countries raising awareness of oppression of African Americans and women. Born on July 16, 1862, in Holly Springs, Mississippi, she was orphaned at the age of 16 when her… Continue reading
Ida B. Wells, married name Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, (born July 16, 1862, Holly Springs, Mississippi, U.S.—died March 25, 1931, Chicago, Illinois), African American journalist who led an antilynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. She later was active in promoting justice for African Americans. Ida B. Wells. Ida Wells was born into ...
Dec 10, 1998 · Ida B. Wells Barnett, the fiery journalist, lecturer and civil rights militant, is best known for her tireless crusade against lynching and her fearless efforts to expose violence against blacks. Catapulted emotionally into the cause after three of her friends were lynched in Tennessee, and after the destruction of her presses, Wells-Barnett never stopped fighting for justice.
May 11, 2021 · Ida B. Wells. Ida B. Wells was an African-American journalist and early civil rights activist. Her activism began when she led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. She would go on to be a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909 and remained active in the movement ...
May 8, 2019 · Ida B. Wells challenged segregation seventy-one years before Rosa Parks, and her campaign against violence and for equality laid the groundwork for the revolutionary Civil Rights Movement, yet most of her efforts were for a long time largely unknown due to the fact that she was African American and a woman. This web exhibit seeks to inform ...
