Who was ida b. wells? [electronic resource]. Sarah Fabiny.
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.
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- ISBN: 9780593093375
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Target Audience Note: | Text Difficulty 4 - Text Difficulty 5 MG/Middle grades (4th-8th) 5.8 ATOS Level 840 Lexile. |
Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. New York : Penguin Workshop, 2020. Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser. |
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Subject: | Biography & Autobiography. Geography. Multi-Cultural. Juvenile Nonfiction. |