Who Was Ida B. Wells
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Who Was Ida B. Wells
By (Author) Sarah Fabiny
By (author) Who HQ
Illustrated by Ted Hammond
Penguin Putnam Inc
Penguin Workshop
2nd June 2020
United States
Classifications
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage: General interest
B
Physical Properties
Paperback
112
Width 133mm, Height 194mm, Spine 6mm
102g
Description
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. 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 just how unjust the world she was living in 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.
Author Bio
Sarah Fabiny has written several Who Was titles, including biographies of Beatrix Potter, Frida Kahlo, Rachel Carson, and Gloria Steinem.
