Who Was Ida B. Wells?

by Sarah Fabiny and Who Hq

Book Overview

The story of how a girl born into slavery became an early leader in the civil rights movement and the most famous black woman journalist in nineteenth-century America.

Born into slavery in 1862, Ida Bell Wells was freed as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1865. Yet she could see just how unjust the world she was living in was. This drove her to become a journalist and activist. Throughout her life, she fought against...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593093356
• ISBN13: 9780593093351
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.4" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6