1862 b biography ida wells

Ida B. Wells,

by Patricia Schechter, Portland State University

Ida B. Wells-Barnett (pictured above, in ) ranks among the most important founders of modern civil rights and feminist movements among African Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century United States.

Her importance is both intellectual and social; the ideas she expressed and organizations she helped organize have endured to this day.

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett ranks among the most important founders of modern civil rights and feminist movements among African Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century United States.

Her importance is both intellectual and social; the ideas she expressed and organizations she helped organize have endured to this day. Her analysis of lynching in the s, especially of mob murder of black men wrongly accused of raping white women, has held up to the scrutiny of generations of scholars and activists, as have the organizations she helped shape: t