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Ida B Wells
08/17/2021
Ida B. Wells
by Laura K. Murray
It’s amazing that Laura K. Murray was able to sum up the influence of Ida B. Wells so eloquently in just 26 pages, but she has done an excellent job of bringing this civil rights activist, writer, humanitarian, and leader to life for children, complete with a timeline of her life and both photographs and illustrations. Beginning with her birth into slavery and concluding with her death in Chicago at age 68, Murray details the impact that Wells had on American people of color by writing about discrimination, leading protests and marches, and giving speeches. She went to college and became a teacher, then began writing for newspapers. She and her husband, attorney Ferdinand Barnett, ran Chicago’s first Black newspaper, and she helped start the NAACP. Wells fought for women’s suffrage, and especially for the rights of Black women to vote. She was a force to be reckoned with and was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her writing in 2020.
Children need to learn about the leaders of all shapes and sizes, of all colors and backgrounds, that have shaped our nation, and this biography is a great one to put into their hands. It’s part of a library-bound series from Capstone that includes books about Marian Anderson, Philo T. Farnsworth, and Susan La Flesche Picotte. Add this biography to your collection by clicking here.
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