Ida B Wells

kicked out of the train

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when was Ida b wells kicked out of the train?

May 4th 1884

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where was Ida b wells kicked out of the train?

Woodstock, Tennessee

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why was Ida b wells kicked out of the train

 Ida B. Wells was forcibly removed in Southwestern Railroad train for refusing to give up her seat

when was she born?

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when was Ida b wells born?

July 16 1862

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where was Ida b wells born?

Holly springs MS

her family

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who did she live with?

• Family Home: The family lived at 3624 S. King Drive in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood from 1919 to 1930.
• Early Life: After her parents died, she lived with her aunt and siblings in Memphis.

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when did she die and what did she do before she died?

March 25, 1931 and shortly before she died she wrote a book about her life

Her siblings

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how many siblings did Ida b wells had?

da B. Wells was the eldest of eight children, meaning she had seven siblings.

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how many sisters and how many brothers did Ida b wells has?

7 sisters and brothers but not 7 sisters each

facts about her

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facts about Ida b wells

da B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) was a pioneering African American investigative journalist, educator, and early civil rights leader born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi. She is best known for leading a, nationwide anti-lynching crusade in the 1890s, documenting brutal racial violence through her publications Southern Horrors and A Red Record.

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more facts

• Awards & Recognition: In 2020, she was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation for her, "outstanding and courageous reporting" on lynching. Wells continued her activism in Chicago, where she focused on suffrage, housing, and civil rights.