Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) is the investigative journalist, educator and advocate known for her outspoken activism. Wells-Barnett used her pen and voice to document and address the severe ...

Maxine Smith, Dorothy Truitt Walk and Cornelia Crenshaw were civil rights leaders who challenged injustice and made a ...

She changed her last name to Wells-Barnett and continued to write more articles and pamphlets about lynchings and race riots with the hope that the violence would stop. Ida B. Wells-Barnett with ...

Wells was a journalist and publisher in the late 1800s and early 1900s and later helped found civil rights and women’s suffrage groups. Ida B. Wells-Barnett died in 1931. “After working on various ...

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 ...

When Michelle Duster — author, historian, public speaker and great-granddaughter of famed Black journalist and activist Ida B. Wells — learned that a school named after Woodrow Wilson in ...

The Whalemobile visited Ida B. Wells-Barnett Elementary School No. 34 in Rochester Thursday. This featured a life-size 40-foot inflatable whale to provide an immersive learning experience for ...

Ida B. Wells: American Stories is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet ...

Memphis has long had legendary women pushing the city forward. Among those is Ida B. Wells Barnett, the journalist, teacher and anti-lynching crusader whose life was threatened because of her ...