Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) is the investigative journalist, educator and advocate known for her outspoken activism. Wells-Barnett used her pen and voice to document and address the severe ...

Ida B. Wells, a leader in the civil rights movement ... "whites only" train and was dragged off on May 4, 1884, despite the fact that she had purchased a first-class ticket, the Chicago Sun ...

The lynching editorial was in fact the reason that Wells was living ... Here are some of the women in Ida B. Wells’s Brooklyn circle: New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research ...

Telling the stories of people like Ida B. Wells provides essential lessons about how to persevere against such attacks. For ...