Hear from author Michelle Duster about her great-grandmother Ida B. Wells’ lifelong fight for equality. Writer and activist ...

A prominent journalist, Ida B. Wells exposed racial violence in the South. In 1913, she led a trip to Washington, D.C. to march in the national suffrage parade. But Wells was met with hostility ...

The Life of Ida B. Wells (Hill and Wang, 2009). Miriam Decosta-Willis ed The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells: An Intimate Portrait of the Activist as a Young Woman (Beacon Press, 1995).

On October 5, 1892, journalist and activist Ida B. Wells addressed a packed house at New York’s Lyric Hall. The subject was lynching. Wells had recently published an editorial that exposed the ...