Ida B. Wells
American journalist and civil rights activist (1862-1931) · United States · Journalists · Died at 68
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Something wrong?Ida Bell Wells-Barnett 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).
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The Bolling-Gatewood House. The Wells family lived in slave quarters located behind the house of Spires Boling while enslaved to him, now a museum focused on Wells
The People's Grocery near Memphis, Tennessee, was a successful African-American cooperative. The 1892 lynchings of its owners led Wells to begin her investigations of lynching.
Cover of Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
Attorney Ferdinand Lee Barnett (c. 1900). Wells married Barnett in 1895.
Wells with her four children, 1909
Grave marker for Ida B. Wells-Barnett and her husband Ferdinand L. Barnett at Oak Woods Cemetery
Ida B. Wells House is a Chicago landmark and National Historic Landmark.Awards
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Ida Bell Wells-Barnett 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). Wells dedicated her career to combating prejudice and violence, and advocating for African-American equality - especially for women.
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