Title: Who Was Ida B. Welles?- --(WB) Author: Sarah Fabiny
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9798822688216
SKU: WB001656
Release Date: 45689
Genre: Biography -Diversity
Grade Level: 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade
Language : English
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.