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How did Ida B. Wells-Barnett become an activist?
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Ida B. Wells
Born into slavery and orphaned as a teenager, Ida B. Wells, shown here about 1893,...
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (NPG.2009.36)
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Ida B. Wells-Barnett, 1930.
Courtesy of the Chicago History Museum
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Southern Horrors
The cover page of Ida B. Wells's Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases,...
The New York Public Library Digital Collections (56807207)
A Red Record
A follow-up to her Southern Horrors, Ida B. Wells published the authoritative...
The New York Public Library Digital Collections (1227176)
Remembering Wells
This photo was taken in 2021. Members of Wells's family were celebrating the work...
© Scott Olson/Getty Images
Commemorating Ida B. Wells
A sign in Memphis, Tennessee, marking where Ida B. Wells's newspaper offices stood.
Carmen K. Sisson/Cloudybright/Alamy
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
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On This Day: July 16
Kurt Heintz of Encyclopædia Britannica discusses the life and legacy of Ida B. Wells,...
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