The 400-Year Continuum We All Share with Ida B. Wells – Chicago Review of Books

The 400-Year Continuum We All Share with Ida B. Wells – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Reading about Ida B. Wells is like reading a biography of activism itself, of a whole flock of lives lived. Born into enslavement in Mississippi in 1862, Wells died in 1931, a year after running for the Illinois State Senate. In between, she became, at sixteen, the primary caregiver to five younger siblings after … Read more