Ida B. Wells - Writer and Revolutionary for African Americans in the late 1800's and early 1900's.

Ida B. Wells-Barnett - Writer and Revolutionary Ida B. Wells was an anti-lynching crusader, suffragist, women's rights advocate, journalist, and speaker. She spent only the first six months of her live as a slave, but she spent the rest of it fighting for the rights of freed blacks. Ida was born six months before the Emancipation Proclamation on July 16, 1862; in Holly Springs, Mississippi. She died at the age of sixty-nine on March 23, 1931. Even though her …showed first 75 words of 1280 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1280 total…her honor during Black History Month. Bibliography Baker, Lee D. "Ida B. Wells-Barnett and her Passion for Justice." http://www.duke.edu/~idbaker/classes/AAIH/caaih/ibwells/ibwbkgrd.html. Duster, Alfreda. The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells. University of Chicago Press, 1970. "Ida B. Wells." http://www.chicagohs.org/AOTM/Mar98/mar98fact2.html. "Ida B. Wells, Crusader for Justice." http://clem.mscd.edu/~hatter/wells.html. Smith, J. Notable American Black Women. Detriot: Gale Research, 1992.