Ida B. Wells-Barnett

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Produktbeschreibung

Ida Wells-Barnett was an early 20th century writer who documented some of the effects of Jim Crow in the South at a time when segregation was the norm there.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Charles River Editors
• Seitenzahl: 87
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781508019787
• Artikelnr.: 54361861

Autorenporträt

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (1862 -1931) was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Over the course of a lifetime dedicated to combating prejudice and violence, and the fight for African-American equality, especially that of women, Wells arguably became the most famous Black woman in America. Born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi, Wells was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation during the American Civil War. At the age of 16, she lost both her parents and her infant brother in the 1878 yellow fever epidemic. She went to work and kept the rest of the family together with the help of her grandmother. Later, moving with some of her siblings to Memphis, Tennessee, she found better pay as a teacher. Soon, Wells co-owned and wrote for the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight newspaper. Her reporting covered incidents of racial segregation and inequality.