Ida B Wells-Barnett

Southern Horrors (Annotated) Ida B Wells-Barnett

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, also known as Ida B. Wells (Holly Springs, Mississippi, July 16, 1862-Chicago, Illinois, March 25, 1931), was an African-American woman co-founder of the National Association for the Progress of People of Color and dedicated to the defense of civil rights and women's rights in the United States, belonging to the suffrage movement. He documented hundreds of cases against racial lynchings, . Ida Wells-Barnett was born in Holly Springs, Mississipi (United States). Daughter of a carpenter's father, John Wells and Elizabeth Warrenton Wells, both slaves until their release after the Civil War. At the age of fourteen his parents and his nine-year-old brother died of yellow fever during an epidemic that ravaged the southern United States, after the funeral the friends decided to divide the remaining six brothers with different uncles and aunts. Wells did not think it was a good idea for the family to separate and for that he decided to go to the institute and find work as a teacher in a school for black people. Despite the difficulties, he was able to continue his education working at Rust College in Holly Springs.2In 1880 Wells moved to Memphis with his brothers, except for a fifteen year old. There he got a summer job and when possible he went to the summer sessions of Fisk University in Nashville.