Ida B. Wells Summary

Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931), an African American journalist, was an active crusader against lynching and a champion of social and political justice for African Americans.Ida B. Wells was born a s... Read more

During her early twenties in Memphis, Tennessee, Ida B. Wells emerged as "the brilliant Iola," a pen name she often used as a journalist, whose forthright style and incisive political critique gained ... Read more

In the following excerpt from a rhetorical analysis of the speeches of Sojourner Truth, Wells-Barnett, and Mary Church Terrell, Campbell points out that Wells-Barnett's style shares many aspect... Read more

In the following full-length study of the ways Wells-Barnett's life typified the experience of African-American women reformers of her day, Townes examines the social and moral content of Wells... Read more

In the following review, Foreman gives a favorable assessment of a published edition of Wells-Barnett's diary. To know Ida B. Wells, more than a hundred years after she launched her journali... Read more

Ida B. Wells showed from a young age that she was willing to work vigorously to attain the impossible through her efforts to retain her family by becoming a parent to six of her siblings at the age of... Read more