{"product_id":"book-who-was-ida-b-wells","title":"Who Was Ida B. Wells?","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Sarah Fabiny\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe story of how a girl born into slavery became an early leader in the civil rights movement and the most famous black female journalist in nineteenth-century America. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn into slavery in 1862, Ida Bell Wells was freed as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1865. Yet she could see just how unjust the world she was living in was. This drove her to become a journalist and activist. Throughout her life, she fought against prejudice and for equality for African Americans. Ida B. Wells would go on to co-own a newspaper, write several books, help cofound the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and fight for women's right to vote.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PSB Bookstock","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ New","offer_id":33929332817979,"sku":"","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0352\/1999\/6731\/products\/WhoWasIdaB.Wells.jpg?v=1591710581","url":"https:\/\/parkstreetbooks.com\/products\/book-who-was-ida-b-wells","provider":"Park Street Books \u0026 Toys","version":"1.0","type":"link"}