Ida B. Wells: Advocating for Equality

Born on July 16, 1862, near Holly Springs, Miss., Ida B. Wells was the first child of James Madison Wells and Elizabeth “Lizzie” Warrenton. Both were enslaved. Thus, Ida was born enslaved as well. The home in which she and her parents served, the Bolling-Gatewood House, would later become the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Museum. On Jan. 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, announcing “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious areas “are, and henceforward shall be free.” Wells’s father, James, became a trustee of Shaw University, now Rust College, in Holly Springs. He was a member of the Loyal League and founded a successful carpentry business in 1867. Wells’s mother became known as a “famous cook.” Both died of yellow fever in 1878, along with…

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