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Journalist, civil rights activist, anti-lynching crusader, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) was a cofounder of the NAACP and active in women's issues.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett - Biography
A biography of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, muckraking journalist and anti-lynching crusader.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett - Profile
A summary of the contributions and life of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, muck-raking 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.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Anti-Lynching Crusade
Jessica McElrath, About's Guide to African American History, describes the life of Ida B. Wells-Barnett and her work to end lynching.
Lynch Law in Georgia - by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
An online copy of Ida B. Wells-Barnett's study on lynching in Georgia.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Biography, part of "The Progress of a People" collection on African-American Perspectives.
Ida B. Wells Barnett
A short bibliography of resources on Ida B. Wells Barnett. At this writing, the resources include items as late as 1992.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
A biographical sketch of Ida B. Wells-Barnett from the National Women's Hall of Fame (Wells-Barnett was inducted in 1988).
Ida B. Wells Barnett
From PBS.org, a brief biographical sketch with some excellent suggestions for further reading (print resources).
Ida. B. Wells-Barnett
A biography with further readings from the Encyclopedia of World Biography, a Gale resource.
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett
A short biography of Wells-Barnett, with some ideas for classroom discussion on racial issues in criminal punishment today.
Ida B. Wells Barnett biography
From Women in History, a group of actresses who portray historical figures, including Wells-Barnett.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett House
Landmark home in Chicago, where Wells-Barnett resided with her husband, journalist and lawyer Ferdinand Lee 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 and American Reform, 1880-1930
Read the introduction from Patricia A. Schechter's 2001 biography of Ida B. Wells-Barnett.
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.

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