Ida b wells biography for children
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Wells’ parents were active participants in the belief of education for freed slaves. Ida’s parents were killed in the Yellow Fever epidemic and at the age of 16, Ida was forced to care for her brothers and sisters. Given that she had a basic education, she took on a teaching job to support her family. Ida took the children to live with an aunt in stat i usa and she continued her education by attending Nashville’s Fisk University.
A situation that occurred on a train acted as the first spark for Ida’s eventual activist life. She had purchased a ticket for the ‘ladies section’ of the train and had ridden in that area before. When the conductor told her she couldn’t ride, he physically dragged her off the lära. Ida took the train company to court and while she won in the lower courts, she eventually lost the kostym. Ida wrote the story up in a local church newspaper. She eventually published other articles in Black American periodicals and newspapers and soon became the owner of Memph
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In 1862, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi. She was born into slavery and later emancipated with her parents at the conclusion of the Civil War.
Wells-Barnett was a journalist, anti-lynching activist, women’s suffragette, and an early civil rights movement leader.
Wells-Barnett authored A Red Record, a book that provided the history and statistical data on the lynching of African Americans in the United States during the late nineteenth century.
“When I present our cause to a minister, editor, lecturer, or representative of any moral agency, the first demand fryst vatten for facts and figures.”
Chapter 10, The Red Record
“When the lives of men, women and children are at stake, when the inhuman butchers of innocents attempt to justify their barbarism by fastening upon a whole race the obloquy of the most infamous of crimes, it is little less than criminal to apologize for the butchers today and tomorrow repudiate the apology by declaring it a •
Ida B. Wells
Some of Ida B. Wells’ descendants
visit a post office named for her
in Holly Springs, Mississippi
Ida B. Wells was born in Mississippi and lived almost half of her life in Illinois. But along the way she spent time in Memphis, and it was there that the course of her life changed.
Today, many people regard Wells — a journalist, activist, teacher, organizer and plaintiff — as the grandmother of the Civil Rights Movement. We’ll tell you her story and let you decide for yourself.
Ida B. Wells was an unlikely candidate for fame. She was a slave when she was born in 1862, although it should be pointed out that her father James Wells — also a slave — was a skilled carpenter. He was the son of his owner and a slave (so Ida B. Wells’ grandfather was white). James Wells actually built the home in which Ida was born (and which still stands in Holly Springs, Mississippi).
When the Civil War ended in 1865, Ida B. Wells became
Ida B. Wells
Some of Ida B. Wells’ descendants
visit a post office named for her
in Holly Springs, Mississippi
Ida B. Wells was born in Mississippi and lived almost half of her life in Illinois. But along the way she spent time in Memphis, and it was there that the course of her life changed.
Today, many people regard Wells — a journalist, activist, teacher, organizer and plaintiff — as the grandmother of the Civil Rights Movement. We’ll tell you her story and let you decide for yourself.
Ida B. Wells was an unlikely candidate for fame. She was a slave when she was born in 1862, although it should be pointed out that her father James Wells — also a slave — was a skilled carpenter. He was the son of his owner and a slave (so Ida B. Wells’ grandfather was white). James Wells actually built the home in which Ida was born (and which still stands in Holly Springs, Mississippi).
When the Civil War ended in 1865, Ida B. Wells became