Ida B. Wells

  • Ida B. Wells: A Woman of Courage
    By Ruth A. Rouff

    About ten o'clock that night, Moss was going over his accounts for the week. Calvin McDowell and his clerk were waiting on the last customers of the evening. A few minutes after the last customers left, shots rang out in the back of the ...

  • Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement
    By Dennis B. Fradin

    Story of Ida B. Wells, one of the great, yet one of the least known, civil rights leaders. A promised journalist, she is remembered for her leadership in women's voting rights, the NAACP, and anti-lynching.

  • Ida B. Wells: Discovering History's Heroes
    By Diane Bailey

    Ida B. Wells never backed down in the fight for justice.

  • Ida B. Wells: Antilynching Crusader
    By Richard M. Haynes

    A biography of the journalist born into slavery describes Wells's tragic childhood, the death of her parents, her years as a schoolteacher, her discrimination lawsuit against a powerful railroad, her...

  • Ida B. Wells: Social Activist and Reformer
    By Kristina DuRocher

    In this concise biography, Kristina DuRocher introduces students to Wells's life and the historical issues of race, gender, and social reform in the late 19th- and early 20th-century U.S. Supplemented by primary documents including letters, ...

  • Ida B. Wells: Let the Truth Be Told
    By Walter Dean Myers

    Award-winning author Walter Dean Myers tells the story of this legendary figure, which blends harmoniously with the historically detailed watercolor paintings of illustrator Bonnie Christensen.

  • Ida B. Wells: Let the Truth Be Told
    By Walter Dean Myers

    This picture book biography introduces the extraordinary Ida B. Wells. Long before boycotts, sit-ins, and freedom rides, Ida B. Wells was hard at work to better the lives of African Americans.

  • Ida B. Wells
    By Joseph Nazel

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  • Ida B. Wells
    By Laura K. Murray

    "How much do you know about Ida B. Wells? Find out the facts you need to know about this journalist and activist. You'll learn about the early life, challenges, and major accomplishments of this important American"--

  • Ida B. Wells: Social Activist and Reformer
    By Kristina DuRocher

    In this concise biography, Kristina DuRocher introduces students to Wells's life and the historical issues of race, gender, and social reform in the late 19th- and early 20th-century U.S. Supplemented by primary documents including letters, ...

  • Ida B. Wells: Discovering History's Heroes
    By Diane Bailey

    Ida B. Wells never backed down in the fight for justice.