Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931
- Authoritative Name:
- Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931
- Biography:
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett, journalist, feminist, and civil rights activist, launched an antilynching campaign in the 1890s that made her one of the most outstanding African American women of the nineteenth century. The eldest of eight children born to James "Jim" and Elizabeth "Lizzie" Warenton Wells, she was born a slave in Holly Springs, Mississippi, on July 16, 1862. Orphaned by the yellow fever epidemic of 1878, Wells left Shaw University (now Rust College) and, at age sixteen, became a teacher in rural Mississippi to support her younger brothers and sisters. ("Ida B. Wells-Barnett, 1862-1931," Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture.)
- Associated Subjects:
- Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931
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