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Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) is now a Chicago icon and a shining example of fearless grit and truth-telling. Born into slavery, she lost both parents at the age of sixteen and supported five siblings by teaching school. As perhaps the first investigative journalist, she crusaded against lynching and for women's suffrage. She worked with Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony; she co-founded the NAACP and started the Alpha Suffrage Club here in Chicago;...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
"Born into slavery in 1862, Ida Bell Wells was freed as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1865. Yet she could see just how unjust the world she was living in was. This drove her to become a journalist and activist. Throughout her life, she fought against prejudice and for equality for African Americans. Ida B. Wells would go on to co-own a newspaper, write several books, help cofound the National Association for the Advancement of Colored...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Written by her great-granddaughter, a historical portrait of the boundary-breaking civil rights pioneer covers Wells' early years as a slave, her famous acts of resistance, and her achievements as a journalist and anti-lynching activist.
Journalist. Suffragist. Antilynching crusader. Ida B. Wells was born enslaved in Holly Springs, Mississippi, in 1862. Though she died in 1931, her impact looms large over the country's slow movements toward progress....
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by actual events, this novel offers a fascinating account of a crucial but little-remembered moment in American history that follows three courageous women who bravely risked their lives and liberty in the fight to win the vote.
Alice Paul returns to New Jersey after several years on the front lines of the suffrage movement in Great Britain, determined to invigorate the stagnant suffrage movement in her homeland. Nine states have already...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1140L
Language
English
Description
Story of Ida B. Wells, one of the great, yet one of the least known, civil rights leaders. A promised journalist, she is remembered for her leadership in women's voting rights, the NAACP, and anti-lynching.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The lives these 10 women led are part of an incredible story about courage in the face of oppression, about the challenges and triumphs of the battle for civil rights, and about speaking out for what you believe in-- even when it feels like no one is listening.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Profiles is so much more than just your typical biography series. The next book in this six-in-one, full-color bio series will focus on Civil Champions--some of the incredible women who worked tirelessly to ensure equal rights for all. Kids will learn all of the biographical information they need to know--background, family, education, accomplishments, etc., about: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ida B. Wells, Alice Paul, Rosa Parks, and...
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents literary criticism on the works of twentieth-century writers of all genres, nations, and cultures. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, interviews, radio and television transcripts, pamphlets, and scholarly papers.
Series
American experience volume 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Story of a mostly forgotten crusader for Black and women's rights, Ida B. Wells Barnett, born in slavery on a plantation in Mississippi. She very effectively used the press and the written word to sway public opinion on matters from post civil war lynching to rights for women and helping secure freedom for supposed perpetrators of the Arkansas race riots. Toni Morrison reads passages from Ida's memoirs as part of the way the story is told.
Author
Publisher
Random House Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Celebrated intellectual and activist Cornel West offers an unflinching look at nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies. In an accessible, conversational format, Cornel West, with distinguished scholar Christa Buschendorf, provides a fresh perspective on six revolutionary African American leaders: Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., Ella Baker, Malcolm X, and Ida Wells-Barnett....