Anniversary of the Birthday of Ida B. Wells, Civil & Women’s Rights Activist
By Tony Pettinato on July 16, 2015
Today is the 153rd anniversary of the birth of famed African American journalist, speaker, civil rights activist and suffragist Ida Bell Wells. As a journalist, Wells wrote for the Chicago newspaper the Daily Inter Ocean. She gained fame for her investigative reporting of lynching in the U.S., demonstrating that in many cases African Americans... (Read More)