Who Was Ida B. Wells?

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. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780593093368 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group Publication Date: 06-02-2020 Pages: 112 Product Dimensions: 7.75(w) x 7.93(h) x 0.47(d) Age Range: 8 - 12 Years Series: Who Was? SeriesAbout the Author Sarah Fabiny has written several Who Was? titles, including biographies of Beatrix Pot