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 how just how unjust the world 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.
| ISBN: | 9780593093368 |
| Publication date: | 2nd June 2020 |
| Author: | Sarah Fabiny, Who HQ |
| Illustrator: | Ted Hammond |
| Publisher: | Penguin Workshop an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 112 pages |
| Series: | Who Was? |
| Genres: |
Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography Children’s / Teenage general interest: Girls and women Children’s / Teenage: Social issues / topics Children’s / Teenage: General interest |