Who Was Ida B. Wells?

<b><b>The story of how a girl born into slavery became an early leader in the civil rights movement and the most famous Black female journalist in nineteenth-century America. </b></b> <p/>Born into slavery in 1862 Ida Bell Wells was freed as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1865. Yet she could see how just how <i>unjust </i>the world 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 People (NAACP) and fight for women's right to vote.