Ida B. Wells

Ida Bell WellsBarnett , more commonly known as Ida B. Wells, was an AfricanAmerican journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909.

Ida Bell Wells was born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi, in 1862, several months before United States President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves in Confederateheld territory. Her enslaved parents were James Wells and Elizabeth Lizzie Wells, both held by Spires Bolling, an architect. She was one of eight children. The family resided at Bollings house, now named the BollingGatewood House, where Lizzie Wells was a cook.

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