Who Was Ida B. Wells?

The story of how a girl born into slavery became an early leader in the civil rights movement and the most famous black female journalist in nineteenth-century America.

Born into slavery in 1862, Ida Bell Wells was freed as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1865. Yet she could see just how unjust the world she was living in was. This drove her to become a journalist and activist. Throughout her life, she fought against prejudice and for equality for African Americans. Ida B. Wells would go on to co-own a newspaper, write several books, help cofound the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and fight for women's right to vote.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Workshop
Published: 06/02/2020
ISBN: 9780593093351
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.40w x 0.20d