Who Was Ida B. Wells?

Who Was Ida B. Wells?
ISBN-10
0593093372
ISBN-13
9780593093375
Category
Juvenile Nonfiction
Pages
114
Language
English
Published
2020-06-02
Publisher
Penguin
Authors
Who HQ, Sarah Fabiny

Description

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.

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