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Ida B. Wells-Barnett
American journalist and social reformer
Also known as: Ida Bell Wells, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, Iola
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- Née:
- Ida Bell Wells
- Born:
- July 16, 1862, Holly Springs, Mississippi, U.S.
- Role In:
- American civil rights movement
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett (born July 16, 1862, Holly Springs, Mississippi, U.S.—died March 25, 1931, Chicago, Illinois) American journalist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. She later was active in promoting justice for African Americans. Ida Wells was born into slavery. She was educated at Rust University, a freedmen’s school in her native Holly Springs, Mississippi, and at age 14 she began teaching in a country school. She continued to teach after moving to Memphis, Tennessee, in 1884 and attended Fisk University in Nashville during several summer sessions. In 1887 the Tennessee Supreme Court, reversing ...(100 of 493 words)