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"Ida B. Wells was an African American woman who achieved national and international fame as a journalist, public speaker, and community activist at the turn of the twentieth century. In this new edition Jacqueline Jones Royster sheds light on the specific events, such as the yellow fever epidemic, that spurred Wells's progression towards activism. Wells's role as a public figure is further explored in the newly included excerpt from Wells's autobiography,...

During the 1890s, Ida Wells-Barnett began documenting lynching in the United States. Her findings, which were based on frequent claims that lynchings were reserved for black criminals only, were published in articles and through her pamphlet called Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in all its Phases. Wells exposed lynching as a barbaric practice of whites in the South used to intimidate and oppress African Americans who created economic and political competition-and...

A biography of the black woman journalist who campaigned for the civil rights of women and other minorities and was a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909.

Presents a biography of the Black woman who campaigned for civil rights and founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. --

Traces the life of the journalist, focusing on her lifelong fight to stop lynching and to bring the nation's attention to the injustices suffered by blacks.

"In graphic novel looks format at the life of American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement, Ida B. Wells. "--