Ida B. Wells Biography
1862-1931

                                   

                        Ida B. Wells was born a slave in 1862. Her parents and youngest sibling both died when                         she was fourteen of a fever. She then took a teaching job in a black school house to keep                 the rest of the family together. She was born in Holly Springs Mississippi and died in                             Chicago Illinois in 1931.  She was a women’s right advocate, journalist and African                                 American Civil Rights advocate. She moved to Memphis in 1880 to write in a                                         newspaper.Writing was Ida’s way of protesting her thoughts on Civil Rights.  She                                 married Ferdinand L. Barnett. She moved to Chicago where she continued fighting for                         black rights. Although she did not live to see freedom and civil rights she made a first                             and lasting impact on The Civil Rights Movement.