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 …

…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.