Ida B. Wells and her children in 1909. Happy birthday. #blackhistory365 | BLACK and Education

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett more commonly known as Ida B. Wells, was an Afrikan journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and an anti-lynching crusader. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. Early life and education Ida Bell Wells was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, on July 16, 1862, a few months before Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Her parents James Wells and Elizabeth "Lizzie" (Warrento

Women's History Month | Ida B. Wells

Ida B. Wells was the truth teller behind the American urge to lynch Black people. Long understood as a way to terrify our people, Wells learned that there was also an economic impact to this mass violence against Black bodies. #PushBlack #BlackHistory #RacialViolence #AntiBlackness #IdaBWells ‌ All sources for this story can be found at https://www.pushblack.us/news/violence-against-black-bodies-has-real-economic-impact-america ____ 📌PushBlack is a Black-led nonprofit dedicated to raising up Bl