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Death day
March 25, 1931 (68 years old)
Zodiac Sign
Cancer
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Celebrities born on July 16
Born in 1862
Born in Holly Springs, Mississippi
Cancer named Ida
Civil Rights Leaders from Mississippi
Civil Rights Leaders born in United States
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First name Ida
Ida B. Wells
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett is an American investigative journalist, educator and one of the early leaders of the civil rights movement. She is one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of People of Color. Throughout her life devoted to fighting prejudice and violence, fighting for the equality of African Americans, especially women, Wells is arguably America's most famous black woman. . Born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi, Wells was liberated by the Declaration of Liberation during the American Civil War. At the age of 16, she orphaned her parents and younger brother during the yellow fever epidemic in 1878. She went to work and took care of the rest of the family with the help of her grandmother. Then, along with some of her siblings moving to Memphis, Tennessee, she noticed a higher salary as a teacher. Soon Wells co-owns and writes for the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight newspaper.
BornIda Bell Wells, July 16, 1862, Holly Springs, Mississippi, U.S.
DiedMarch 25, 1931, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Burial placeOak Woods Cemetery
NationalityAmerican
Other namesIda B. Wells-Barnett, Iola (pen name)
EducationRust College, Fisk University
OccupationCivil rights and women's rights activist, journalist and newspaper editor, teacher
Political partyRepublican, Independent.
Children6, incl. Alfreda Duster
Parent(s)James Wells and Elizabeth Bell Warrenton

About Ida B. Wells

Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells

Civil Rights Leader Ida B. Wells was born on July 16, 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi, United States (She dies at the age of 68, on March 25, 1931).

Civil rights activist and women's rights activist who garnered national recognition for documenting organizations in the United States lynching black people.

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Ida B. Wells before becoming famous

Ida B. Wells was born in the Zodiac sign Cancer (The Crab), and 1862 is also the year of Dog (狗) in the Chinese Zodiac.

Until the Emancipation Proclamation, her parents were slaves.

Achievement of Ida B. Wells

She was kicked from the train for refusing to give up her seat on the Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad, 71 years before activist Civil Rights Leader Rosa Parks demonstrated similar defiance on a bus.

Ida B. Wells's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells

She is the daughter of James and Elizabeth Wells. Ferdinand L. Barnett was her husband. She had two sons, Herman and Charles, and two daughters, Alfreda and Ida.

Ida B. Wells Collabed with

Together with Autobiographer Frederick Douglass and other black leaders, she organized a black boycott of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, for its failure to collaborate with the black community on exhibits representing African-American life.

Frederick Douglass (1818 - 1895) (Autobiographer)
Frederick Douglass (1818 - 1895)

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Ida B. Wells Income & Net worth

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