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 slave in Holly Springs, Mississippi, on July 16,...

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 the attention and respect of a broad readership in...

Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an investigative journalist whose factual reporting and scholarly analysis of lynchings provided the genesis for what later became a prominent movement in the United States. As editor of the weekly Memphis Free Speech, Wells...

Philadelphia Tribune, The 02-08-2000 Ida B. Wells Barnett was crusader for freedom Characterized throughout the print media as courageous, determined, forceful, fearless, fiery, and militant, the life and career of Ida Bell Wells Barnett covers several epochs of the Black American saga....

RACISM OR SEXISM-WHICH IS worse? Take your pick. Paula Giddings' new biography, Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching, offers both options. The always compelling, at times calamitous, life of this underappreciated black heroine is examined in...

Civil rights activist Ida B. Wells started school at such a young age that she later said she couldn't remember how old she was when she first set foot in a classroom. Wells' earliest memory was reading the newspaper to her father and his friends....

The yellow school bus rumbles through vacant lots and past demolished buildings, full of people who have paid $20 for a tour of what was once among the most dangerous areas of this or any other city in the United States.But for the woman with...

In the following chapter from her full-length study of a number of autobiographical narratives written by African-American women, Braxton analyzes Wells-Barnett's Crusade for Justice both as an historical memoir and a confessional.

In the following chapter from her biography of Wells-Barnett, McMurry discusses the social and rhetorical contexts of her subject's early anti-lynching lectures.

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-Barnett's writings.

The black feminist philosophy of Ida B. Wells, who fought stereotypes and untruths about society's views of black women in America. Wells espoused loyalty to family and black culture and people.