Wells raised her younger siblings and became a teacher to support her family. "I am honored that Barbie has chosen to celebrate my great-grandmother, Ida B. Wells, as part of its Inspiring Women ...

Ida B. Wells was one of the most prominent black ... She started her career as a school teacher but continued to grow professionally and gave herself no limits to what she could achieve.

These days, my great-grandmother, Ida B. Wells, is referred to as a “badass ... five remaining siblings and started her career as a teacher in rural Mississippi, then moved to Memphis ...

She became a teacher to support her siblings ... where she continued to teach and resumed her education. Statue of Ida B. Wells in Memphis, Tennessee. | Southern Hollows/S. Liles, Wikimedia ...

When Ida B. Wells moved to Chicago at the age of 32 ... Wells worked for years as a public school teacher in her early adulthood, when she lived in Memphis, Tenn. But when she arrived in Chicago ...

Wells and her attorney. Ida B. Wells was starting to make a name for herself. She took a teaching job in Memphis and joined a Lyceum founded by black teachers. It was a community of sort of ...

Ida B. Wells-Barnett died March 15 ... At the age of 14, she became a teacher at a local school. A few years later her education career took her to Memphis, Tennessee, where she would teach for the ...

Telling the stories of people like Ida B. Wells provides essential lessons about how to persevere against such attacks. For Wells, care for her community was central to an enduring practice of ...

When Michelle Duster — author, historian, public speaker and great-granddaughter of famed Black journalist and activist Ida B. Wells — learned that a school named after Woodrow Wilson in ...