Journalist and activist Ida B. Wells rose to national attention with her anti-lynching campaign, and spent the rest of her life fighting for the rights of Black Americans and women. Wells was born ...

Wells. Ida B. Wells, blazing through the 19th and 20th centuries, was a well-known African American anti-lynching crusader, an investigative journalist, a newspaper owner, and a suffragette.

Hear from author Michelle Duster about her great-grandmother Ida B. Wells’ lifelong fight for equality. Writer and activist Ida B. Wells was selected to appear on a new quarter as part of the 2025 ...

Cook has a vision of opening bookstores around the country named after impactful and heroic African American ... Underground Railroad. Ida’s is named for Ida B. Wells, who was a prominent ...

Writer and activist Ida B. Wells was selected to appear on a new quarter as part of the 2025 American Women Quarters Program with the U.S. Mint. Michelle Duster Portrait of Ida B. Wells in 1893 by ...