Ida B. Wells Quotes


The appetite grows for what it feeds on.


Citations

Wells, Ida B. Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases. The New York Age Print, 1892, p. 20.

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Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells
  • Born: July 16, 1862
  • Died: March 25, 1931
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Journalist, Civil Rights Women's Rights Activist, Teacher

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Over the course of a lifetime dedicated to combating prejudice and violence, and the fight for African-American equality, especially that of women, Wells arguably became the most famous Black woman in America.