Who Was Ida B. Wells?

Download or read book Who Was Ida B. Wells? written by Sarah Fabiny and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 how just how unjust the world 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.