Bio
Born a slave, Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) became one of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries' most powerful voices for justice and against the brutality of lynching. Her unflinching journalistic accounts shed light on the evils and persistence of racism in the United States. Wells-Barnett was one of the original founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Her groundbreaking activism laid the foundation for the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In 2020, she was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her “outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching.”Ida B. Wells-Barnett Books
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
Ida B. Wells-BarnettThe Arkansas Race Riot (1920)
Ida B. Wells-BarnettSouthern Horrors: Lynch Law In All Its Phases
Ida B. Wells-BarnettThe East St. Louis Massacre
Ida B. Wells-BarnettThe Red Record
Ida B. Wells-BarnettMob Rule in New Orleans
Ida B. Wells-BarnettSouthern Horrors
Ida B Wells-BarnettSouthern Horrors - Lynch Law in All Its Phases
Ida B. Wells-BarnettThe Red Record
Ida B. Wells-BarnettMob Rule in New Orleans
Ida B. Wells-BarnettAmerica Awakened
Ida B. Wells-BarnettOn Lynchings
Ida B. Wells-Barnett