Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Ida B. Wells-Barnett - Profile
A summary of the contributions and life of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, muck-raking journalist and anti-lynching crusader.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett - Biography
A biography of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, muckraking journalist and anti-lynching crusader.
Black Women Sent to the Back of the Suffrage March
Ida B. Wells and Mary Church Terrell had very different reactions when black women were asked to march at the end of a suffrage parade in 1913.
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
Book published in 1892 and reprinted in following years, written by Ida B. Wells-Barnett. This is the Gutenberg etext version of that book.
The Red Record, by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Project Gutenberg EBook of The Red Record, statistics about lynching and their "alleged causes," by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, originally published in 1895 and reprinted later.
Missing in Action: Ida B. Wells, the NAACP, and the Historical Record
Paula Giddings highlights divisions within the early civil rights movement, as she documents how Ida B. Wells-Barnett was excluded from the historical record, including from early celebrations of Carter G. Woodson's "Negro History Week" which evolved into Black History Month.
Ida B. Wells
Biography of Ida B. Wells, by by Patricia A Schechter, Ph.D., Portland State University.
Ida B. Wells Barnett
From PBS.org, a brief biographical sketch with some excellent suggestions for further reading (print resources).
Ida B. Wells Barnett biography
From Women in History, a group of actresses who portray historical figures, including Wells-Barnett.
Ida B. Wells Memorial Foundation: Biography
Also on this site: a timeline.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Biography, part of "The Progress of a People" collection on African-American Perspectives.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930
Read the introduction from Patricia A. Schechter's 2001 biography of Ida B. Wells-Barnett.
Ida B. Wells: 'People like this will never give up'
Janelle Gamez-Prince's winning essay, 1995, on Ida B. Wells, published in honor of African American History Month.
Ida. B. Wells-Barnett
A biography with further readings from the Encyclopedia of World Biography, a Gale resource.
Law, Society, Identity and the Making of the Jim Crow South:
This 1999 essay by Kenneth W. Mack includes a discussion of gender issues in segregation laws: should middle class women be admitted to ladies' cars on the railroad?
Dedication ceremonies--Ida B. Wells Homes
An image of a 1940 WPA poster in honor of the dedication of the Chicago housing project named for Ida B. Wells-Barnett.
Do you know how Ida B. Wells has affected our lives?
Article (2013) by Andrew Bozeman on Ida B. Wells.