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.

Publisher: Penguin Workshop
Published: 06/02/2020
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.2lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.40w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9780593093351
Ages: 08 - 12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.8
Point Value: 1
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 509494 / Who Was Ida B. Wells?

About the Author
Sarah Fabiny has written several Who Was? titles, including biographies of Beatrix Potter, Frida Kahlo, Rachel Carson, and Gloria Steinem.