Ida B. Wells (1862–1931)

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Ida B. Wells: ‘People like this will never give up’

By Janelle Gamez-Prince, in People's Tribune, 20 February 1995. She struggled against lynchings in the 1890s.

Ida B. Wells-Barnett; Journalism as a Weapon Against Racial Bigotry

By Pamela Newkirk, Media Studies Journal. A fearless journalist who unflinchingly put her livelihood and life on the line to confront racial injustice and launch a crusade against lynching.

Introduction to ‘The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World's Columbian Exposition’, by Ida B. Wells (Chicago: 1893)

From the Black Radical Congress list, 31 December 1999.