Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862–March 25, 1931) was an African American journalist, newspaper editor and, with her husband, a newspaper owner. An early leader in the civil rights movement, she documented the extent of lynching in the United States. She was also active in the women's rights movement and the women's suffrage movement.
Ida Bell Wells was born in Holy Springs, Mississippi in 1862, just before President Abraham Lincoln issued th...
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Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862–March 25, 1931) was an African American journalist, newspaper editor and, with her husband, a newspaper owner. An early leader in the civil rights movement, she documented the extent of lynching in the United States. She was also active in the women's rights movement and the women's suffrage movement.
Ida Bell Wells was born in Holy Springs, Mississippi in 1862, just before President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Her father James Wells was a carpenter and her mother was Elizabeth "Lizzie" Warrenton Wells. Both parents were slaves until freed at the end of the Civil War.
Wells attended the Freedmen's School Shaw University, now Rust College in Holly Springs . When she was 14, both Wells' parents and her 10-month old brother, Stanley, died of yellow fever during an epidemic that swept through the South.
At a meeting following the funeral, friends and relatives decided that the six remaining Wells children would be sent to...
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