Ida B. Wells

File:Ida B. Wells-Barnette Brith Home (Holly Springs, MS).jpg. The Wells family lived in slave quarters located behind the house of Spires Boling while enslaved to him, now a museum focused on Wells]]

Ida Bell Wells was born on the Boling Farm near Holly Springs, Mississippi.{{sfn|McKinney||p=}} Born on July 16, 1862, Ida Wells was the first child of James Madison Wells (1840–1878) and Elizabeth "Lizzie" (Warrenton). James Wells was born to an enslaved woman named Peggy and Peggy's white enslaver, thus he was enslaved under the doctrine of partus sequitur ventrem. When James was 18, his father brought him to Holly Springs, hiring him out as a carpenter's apprentice to architect Spires Boling, with James's wages going to his enslaver. One of ten children born on a plantation in Virginia, Lizzie was abducted and trafficked away from her family and siblings and tried without success to locate her family following the Civil War.{{sfn|McMurry|p=}} Lizzie was owned by Boling for domestic labor in his home, now the Bolling–Gatewood House. Before the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, both of Wells's parents were enslaved to Boling, and thus Ida was also born enslaved. James Wells built much of the Bolling–Gatewood house, in which Boling lived, and which in March 2002{{cite web |title=About |url=https://idabwellsmuseum.org/about/ |website=Ida B. Wells-Barnett museum |access-date=6 October 2024 |archive-date=October 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241007102601/https://idabwellsmuseum.org/about/ |url-status=live }} became the Ida B. Wells–Barnett Museum.{{sfn|Matthews, Dasha||p=}} The Wells family lived elsewhere on the property. Ground plans on display in the Ida B. Wells–Barnett Museum identify shacks behind the house as the residence of the Wells family.

After emancipation, James became a trustee of the newly established Shaw University (now Rust College) in Holly Springs. He refused to vote for Democratic candidates during the period of Reconstruction, became a member of the Loyal League, and was known as a "race man" for his involvement in politics and his commitment to the Republican Party.{{sfn|McMurry|p=}} He founded a successful carpentry business in Holly Springs in 1867, and his wife Lizzie became known as a "famous cook".{{sfn|Giddings, Sword Among Lions,|2008|pp=5–10}}

Ida B. Wells was one of their eight children, and she enrolled in Shaw University.{{Cite web |last=Levesque |first=Faron |date=2024-04-26 |title=Ida B. Wells and People's Grocery |url=https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/ida-b-wells-and-peoples-grocery/ |access-date=2024-05-25 |website=The MIT Press Reader |language=en |archive-date=May 25, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525122420/https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/ida-b-wells-and-peoples-grocery/ |url-status=live }} In September 1878, both of Ida's parents died during a yellow fever epidemic that also claimed one of her brothers.{{sfn|Black, Patti Carr ||p=}} Wells had been visiting her grandmother's farm near Holly Springs at the time and was spared.

Following the funerals of her parents and brother, friends and relatives decided that the five remaining Wells children should be separated and sent to foster homes. Wells resisted this proposition. To keep her younger siblings together as a family, she found work as a teacher in a rural Black elementary school outside Holly Springs. Her paternal grandmother, Peggy Wells (née Peggy Cheers; 1814–1887), along with other friends and relatives, stayed with her siblings and cared for them during the week while Wells was teaching.{{sfn|Mitchell||p=D13 }}

About two years after, Wells's grandmother (Peggy) had a stroke and her sister Eugenia died, Wells and her two youngest sisters moved to Memphis to live with an aunt, Fanny Butler ({{née}} Fanny Wells; 1837–1908), in 1883.{{sfn|Heather-Lea||pp=4 & 7 (section A)}} Memphis is about {{convert|56|mi|km}} from Holly Springs.

Soon after moving to Memphis, Tennessee, Wells was hired in Woodstock by the Shelby County school system. During her summer vacations, she attended summer sessions at Fisk University, a historically Black college in Nashville, Tennessee. She also attended LeMoyne–Owen College, a historically Black college in Memphis. She held strong political opinions and provoked many people with her views on women's rights. At the age of 24, she wrote: "I will not begin at this late day by doing what my soul abhors; sugaring men, weak deceitful creatures, with flattery to retain them as escorts or to gratify a revenge."{{sfn|Bay||p=67}}

{{quote box|quoted=true |salign=right| quote = . . . It is with no pleasure that I have dipped my hands in the corruption here exposed ... Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.|source= – Ida B. Wells (1892){{sfn|Dickerson||}}| width = 300px}}

On September 15, 1883, and again on May 4, 1884, a train conductor with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway{{sfn|Yaeger, October 21, 2015|p=}}{{sfn|Franklin||pp=61, 63–65}} ordered Wells to give up her seat in the first-class ladies car and move to the smoking car, which was already crowded with other passengers.{{sfn|Mitchell||p=D13 }} In 1883, the United States Supreme Court had ruled against the federal Civil Rights Act of 1875 (which had banned racial discrimination in public accommodations). This verdict supported railroad companies that chose to racially segregate their passengers. When Wells refused to give up her seat on September 15, the conductor and two men dragged her out of the car. Wells gained publicity in Memphis when she wrote a newspaper article for The Living Way, a Black church weekly, about her treatment on the train. In Memphis, she hired an African-American attorney to sue the railroad. When her lawyer was paid off by the railroad,{{sfn|Fradin & Fradin||p=21}} she hired a white attorney.

Wells won her case on December 24, 1884, when the local circuit court granted her a $500 (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US|value=500|start_year=1884}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US}}) award. The railroad company appealed to the Tennessee Supreme Court, which reversed the lower court's ruling in 1887. It concluded: "We think it is evident that the purpose of the defendant in error was to harass with a view to this suit, and that her persistence was not in good faith to obtain a comfortable seat for the short ride."{{sfn|Chesapeake, O. & S. R. Co. v. Wells,|1887|p=5}} Wells was ordered to pay court costs. Her reaction to the higher court's decision revealed her strong convictions on civil rights and religious faith, as she responded: "I felt so disappointed because I had hoped such great things from my suit for my people. ... O God, is there no ... justice in this land for us?"{{sfn|Wells–Duster, |1970|p=xviii }}

While continuing to teach elementary school, Wells became increasingly active as a journalist and writer. She accepted an editorial position for a small Memphis journal, the Evening Star, and she began writing weekly articles for The Living Way newspaper under the pen name "Iola".{{sfn|Wells–Duster, |1970|pages=23–24 }} Articles she wrote under her pen name attacked racist Jim Crow policies.{{sfn|Cardon||p=}} In 1889, she became editor and co-owner with J. L. Fleming of The Free Speech and Headlight, a Black-owned newspaper established by the Reverend Taylor Nightingale (1844–1922) and based at the Beale Street Baptist Church in Memphis.

In 1891, Wells was dismissed from her teaching post by the Memphis Board of Education due to her articles criticizing conditions in the Black schools of the region. She was devastated but undaunted, and concentrated her energy on writing articles for The Living Way and the Free Speech and Headlight.{{sfn|Wells–Duster, |1970|p=xviii }}

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File:Peoples-grocery.jpg near Memphis, Tennessee, was a successful African-American cooperative. The 1892 lynchings of its owners led Wells to begin her investigations of lynching.]]

In 1889, Thomas Henry Moss Sr. (1853–1892), an African American, opened People's Grocery, which he co-owned. The store was located in a South Memphis neighborhood nicknamed "The Curve". Wells was close to Moss and his family, having stood as godmother to his first child, Maurine E. Moss (1891–1971). Moss's store did well and competed with a white-owned grocery store across the street, Barrett's Grocery, owned by William Russell Barrett (1854–1920).{{sfn|Peavey & Smith||pp=46–49 }}

On March 2, 1892, a young Black male youth named Armour Harris was playing a game of marbles with a young white male youth named Cornelius Hurst in front of the People's Grocery. The two male youths got into an argument during the game, then began to fight. As the Black youth, Harris, seemed to be winning the fight, the father of Cornelius Hurst intervened and began to "thrash" Harris. The People's Grocery employees William Stewart and Calvin R. McDowell (1870–1892) saw the fight and rushed outside to defend the young Harris from the adult Hurst as people in the neighborhood gathered into what quickly became a "racially charged mob".{{sfn|Giddings, Sword Among Lions,|2008|pages=178–180, 183, 207}}

The white grocer Barrett returned the following day, March 3, 1892, to the People's Grocery with a Shelby County Sheriff's Deputy, looking for William Stewart. Calvin McDowell, who greeted Barrett, indicated that Stewart was not present, but Barrett was dissatisfied with the response and was frustrated that the People's Grocery was competing with his store. Angry about the previous day's mêlée, Barrett responded that "Blacks were thieves" and hit McDowell with a pistol. McDowell wrestled the gun away and fired at Barrett—missing narrowly. McDowell was later arrested but subsequently released.{{sfn|Giddings, Sword Among Lions,|2008|pages=178–180, 183, 207}}

On March 5, 1892, a group of six white men including a sheriff's deputy took electric streetcars to the People's Grocery. The group of white men were met by a barrage of bullets from the People's Grocery, and Shelby County Sheriff Deputy Charley Cole was wounded, as well as civilian Bob Harold. Hundreds of Whites were deputized almost immediately to put down what was perceived by the local Memphis newspapers Commercial and Appeal-Avalanche as an armed rebellion by Black men in Memphis.{{sfn|Giddings, Sword Among Lions,|2008|pages=178–180, 183, 207}} Thomas Moss, a postman in addition to being the owner of the People's Grocery, was named as a conspirator along with McDowell and Stewart. The three men were arrested and jailed pending trial.{{sfn|Peavey & Smith||pp=46–49 }}

Around 2:30 a.m. on the morning of March 9, 1892, 75 men wearing black masks took Moss, McDowell, and Stewart from their jail cells at the Shelby County Jail to a Chesapeake and Ohio rail yard one mile north of the city and shot them dead. The Memphis Appeal-Avalanche reports: Just before he was killed, Moss said to the mob: "Tell my people to go west, there is no justice here."{{sfn|Giddings, Sword Among Lions,|2008|pages=178–180, 183, 207}}

After the lynching of her friends, Wells wrote in Free Speech and Headlight urging Blacks to leave Memphis altogether:

{{blockquote|There is, therefore, only one thing left to do; save our money and leave a town which will neither protect our lives and property, nor give us a fair trial in the courts, but takes us out and murders us in cold blood when accused by white persons.{{sfn|Wells–Duster, |1970|p=52}}}}

The event led Wells to begin investigating lynchings. She began to interview people associated with lynchings, including a lynching in Tunica, Mississippi, in 1892 where she concluded that the father of a young white woman had implored a lynch mob to kill a Black man with whom his daughter was having a sexual relationship, under a pretense "to save the reputation of his daughter".{{sfn|Giddings, Sword Among Lions,|2008|pages=178–180, 183, 207}} In a 1909 speech at the National Negro Conference, Wells said: {{blockquote|During the last ten years from 1899 to 1908 inclusive the number lynched was 959. Of this number 102 were white, while the colored victims numbered 857. No other nation, civilized or savage, burns its criminals; only under that Stars and Stripes is the human holocaust possible. Twenty-eight human beings burned at the stake, one of them a woman and two of them children, is the awful indictment against American civilization—the gruesome tribute which the nation pays to the color line.{{Cite web |last=BlackPast.org |date=2008-09-22 |title=(1909) Ida B. Wells, "Lynching, Our National Crime" • |url=https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1909-ida-b-wells-awful-slaughter/ |access-date=2024-05-13 |language=en-US |archive-date=May 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240513113403/https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1909-ida-b-wells-awful-slaughter/ |url-status=live }}}}

Wells's anti-lynching commentaries in the Free Speech had been building, particularly with respect to lynchings and imprisonment of Black men suspected of raping white women. A story was published on January 16, 1892, in the Cleveland Gazette, describing a wrongful conviction for a sexual affair between a married white woman, Julia Underwood (née Julie Caroline Wells), and a single Black man, William Offet (1854–1914) of Elyria, Ohio. Offet was convicted of rape and served four years of a 15-year sentence, despite his sworn denial of rape. Underwood's husband, Rev. Isaac T. Underwood – after she confessed to him that she had lied two years later – diligently worked to get Offet out of the penitentiary. After hiring an influential Pittsburgh attorney, Thomas Harlan Baird Patterson (1844–1907), Rev. Underwood prevailed, Offet was released and subsequently pardoned by the Ohio Governor.{{sfn|"Horrible but True", January 16,|1892|p=1}}

{{quote box|quoted=true |salign=right| quote = Dear Miss Wells:{{br}}{{space|5}}Thank you for your faithful paper on the lynch abomination now generally practiced against colored people in the South. There has been no word equal to it in convincing power. I have spoken, but my word is feeble in comparison {{nowrap|...}} Brave woman! {{nowrap|...}} |source= – Frederick Douglass (October 25, 1892){{sfn|Douglass, Frederick|1892|p=25}} | width = 300px}}

On May 21, 1892, Wells published an editorial in the Free Speech refuting what she called "that old threadbare lie that Negro men rape white women. If Southern men are not careful, a conclusion might be reached which will be very damaging to the moral reputation of their women."{{sfn|Wormser||p=}}

Four days later, on May 25, The Daily Commercial wrote: "The fact that a Black scoundrel [Ida B. Wells] is allowed to live and utter such loathsome and repulsive calumnies is a volume of evidence as to the wonderful patience of Southern whites. But we've had enough of it."{{sfn|Wells, Southern Horrors|1892|pages=3–5}} The Evening Scimitar (Memphis) copied the story that same day, and added: "Patience under such circumstances is not a virtue. If the Negroes themselves do not apply the remedy without delay it will be the duty of those whom he has attacked to tie the wretch who utters these calumnies to a stake at the intersection of Main and Madison Sts., brand him in the forehead with a hot iron and perform upon him a surgical operation with a pair of tailor's shears."{{sfn|Wells, Southern Horrors|1892|pages=3–5}}

A white mob ransacked the Free Speech office, destroying the building and its contents.{{cite news|last=Staples|first=Brent|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/10/opinion/sunday/white-newspapers-african-americans.html|title=How the white Press Wrote Off Black America|work=The New York Times|date=July 10, 2021|access-date=April 1, 2022}} James L. Fleming, co-owner with Wells and business manager, was forced to flee Memphis; and, reportedly, the trains were being watched for Wells's return. Creditors took possession of the office and sold the assets of the Free Speech. Wells had been out of town, vacationing in Manhattan; she never returned to Memphis.{{sfn|Wells, Southern Horrors|1892|pages=3–5}} A "committee" of white businessmen, reportedly from the Cotton Exchange, located Rev. Nightingale and, although he had sold his interest to Wells and Fleming in 1891,{{sfn|Schechter||p=70}} assaulted him and forced him at gunpoint to sign a letter retracting the May 21 editorial.{{sfn|"A Bright Woman"||p=1 (section 2)}}{{sfn|Sheriff||p=63 (footnote 46) }}

Wells subsequently accepted a job with The New York Age and continued her anti-lynching campaign from New York.{{sfn|Schechter||p=79}} For the next three years, she resided in Harlem, initially as a guest at the home of Timothy Thomas Fortune (1856–1928) and wife, Carrie Fortune (née Caroline Charlotte Smiley; 1860–1940).{{sfn|Sheriff||pp=63–64 }}

According to Kenneth W. Goings, no copy of the Memphis Free Speech survives. The only knowledge of the newspaper ever existing comes from reprinted articles in other archived newspapers.{{sfn|Goings|p=}}

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On October 26, 1892, Wells began to publish her research on lynching in a pamphlet titled Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.{{sfn|Baker||p=}}{{sfn|Wells, Southern Horrors|1892|p=}} Having examined many accounts of lynchings due to the alleged "rape of white women", she concluded that Southerners accused Black men of rape to hide their real reasons for lynchings: Black economic progress, which white Southerners saw as a threat to their own economic progress, and white ideas of enforcing Black second-class status in the society. Black economic progress was a contemporary issue in the South, and in many states whites worked to suppress Black progress. In this period at the turn of the century, Southern states, starting with Mississippi in 1890, passed laws and/or new constitutions to disenfranchise most Black people and many poor white people through use of poll taxes, literacy tests and other devices.

Wells, in Southern Horrors, adopted the phrase "poor, blind Afro-American Sampsons" to denote Black men as victims of "white Delilahs". The Biblical "Samson", in the vernacular of the day, came from Longfellow's 1865 poem, "The Warning", containing the line: "There is a poor, blind Samson in the land{{nowrap| ... }}" To explain the metaphor "Sampson", John Elliott Cairnes, an Irish political economist, in his 1865 article about Black suffrage, wrote that Longfellow was prophesizing; to wit: in "the long-impending struggle for Americans following the Civil War, [he, Longfellow] could see in the Negro only an instrument of vengeance, and a cause of ruin".{{sfn|Cairnes||p=343}}

After conducting further research, Wells published The Red Record, in 1895. This 100-page pamphlet was a sociological investigation of lynching in the United States since the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. It also covered Black people's struggles in the South since the Civil War. The Red Record explored the alarmingly high rates of lynching in the United States (which was at a peak from 1880 to 1930). Wells said that during Reconstruction, most Americans outside the South did not realize the growing rate of violence against Black people in the South. She believed that during slavery, white people had not committed as many attacks because of the economic labor value of slaves. Wells noted that, since slavery time, "ten thousand Negroes have been killed in cold blood, [through lynching] without the formality of judicial trial and legal execution".{{sfn|Wells, Red Record||p=8}}

Frederick Douglass had written an article noting three eras of "Southern barbarism" and the excuses that whites claimed in each period.

Wells explored these in her The Red Record:{{sfn|Wells, Red Record||p=}}

• During the time of enslavement, she observed that whites worked to "repress and stamp out alleged 'race riots{{' "}} or suspected rebellions by the abducted, usually killing Black people in far higher proportions than any white casualties. Once the Civil War ended, white people feared Black people, who were in the majority in many areas. White people acted to control them and suppress them by violence.{{sfn|Wells, Red Record||p=8}}
• During the Reconstruction Era white people murdered Black people as part of mob efforts to suppress Black political activity and re-establish white supremacy after the war. They feared so-called "Negro Domination" through voting and taking office. Wells urged Black people in high-risk areas to move away to protect their families.{{sfn|Wells, Red Record||p=9}}
• She observed that whites frequently claimed that Black men had "to be killed to avenge their assaults upon women". She said that white people falsely assumed that any relationship between a white woman and a Black man was a result of rape. But, given power dynamics, it was much more common for white men to take sexual advantage of poor Black women. She stated: "Nobody in this section of the country believes the old threadbare lie that Black men rape white women."{{sfn|Wells, Red Record||p=12}} Wells connected lynching to sexual violence, showing how the myth of the Black man's lust for white women led to the murder of African-American men.

Wells collected 14 pages of statistics related to lynching cases committed from 1892 to 1895; she also included pages of graphic accounts detailing specific lynchings. She wrote that her data was taken from articles by white correspondents, white press bureaus, and white newspapers.{{sfn|Wells, Red Record||p=71}} Her delivery of these statistics did not simply reduce the murders to numbers, Wells strategically paired the data with descriptive accounts in a way that helped her audience conceptualize the scale of the injustice. This powerful quantification captivated Black and White audiences about the horrors of lynching, through both her circulated works and public oration.{{cite journal |last1=Murphy |first1=Benjamin J. |title='Multiplied without Number': Lynching, Statistics, and Visualization in Ida B. Wells, Mark Twain, and W. E. B. Du Bois |journal=American Literature |date=June 2021 |volume=93 |issue=2 |pages=195–226 |doi=10.1215/00029831-9003554 |s2cid=233966886 }}

Southern Horrors and The Red Record{{'}}s documentation of lynchings captured the attention of Northerners who knew little about these mob murders or accepted the common explanation that Black men deserved this fate.{{sfn|Wells, Red Record||p=82}}

According to the Equal Justice Initiative, 4,084 African Americans were murdered in the South, alone, between 1877 and 1950,{{sfn|"Key Findings"||p=4}} of which, 25 percent were accused of sexual assault and nearly 30 percent, murder.{{sfn|"Key Findings"||p=4}} Generally southern states and white juries refused to indict any perpetrators for lynching,{{sfn|Johnston & Oliver||p=24}} although they were frequently known and sometimes shown in the photographs being made more frequently of such events.{{sfn|Thompson||p=238}}{{sfn|Allen||loc={{full citation needed|date=May 2021|reason=Source cite mentions about 10 sources. This may not be a source for the statement but examples.}}}}

Despite Wells's attempt to gain support among white Americans against mob murders, she believed that her campaign could not overturn the economic interests whites had in using lynching as an instrument to maintain Southern order and discourage Black economic ventures. Ultimately, Wells concluded that appealing to reason and compassion would not succeed in gaining criminalization of lynching by Southern whites.{{sfn|Curry||p=}} In response to the extreme violence perpetrated upon Black Americans, Wells concluded that armed resistance was a reasonable and effective means to defend against lynching.{{sfn|Wells, Southern Horrors|1892|p=23}} She said, a "Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home."{{cite news |last1=Johnson |first1=Nicholas |title=Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/01/29/negroes-and-the-gun-a-winchester-in-every-black-home/ |newspaper=Washington Post |date=January 29, 2014 |access-date=September 22, 2022 |archive-date=March 9, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230309170256/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/01/29/negroes-and-the-gun-a-winchester-in-every-black-home/ |url-status=live }}

Wells travelled twice to Britain in her campaign against lynching, the first time in 1893 and the second in 1894 in effort to gain the support of a powerful white nation such as Britain to shame and sanction the racist practices of the United States.{{sfn|Curry||p=}} She and her supporters in America saw these tours as an opportunity for her to reach larger, white audiences with her anti-lynching campaign, something she had been unable to accomplish in America. In these travels, Wells notes that her own transatlantic voyages in themselves held a powerful cultural context given the histories of the Middle Passage, and black female identity within the dynamics of segregation.{{Cite journal |last=Totten |first=Gary |date=Spring 2008 |title=Embodying Segregation: Ida B. Wells and the Cultural Work of Travel |journal=African American Review |volume=42 |issue=1 |pages=47–60 |jstor=40301303 }} She found sympathetic audiences in Britain, already shocked by reports of lynching in America.{{sfn|Zackodnik||p=264}}

Wells had been invited for her first British speaking tour by Catherine Impey{{Cite news |date=April 24, 1893 |title=Public Notices |work=Aberdeen Press and Journal}} and Isabella Fyvie Mayo. Impey, a Quaker abolitionist who published the journal Anti-Caste,{{sfn|Quakers||p=}} had attended several of Wells's lectures while traveling in America. Mayo was a writer and poet who wrote under the name of Edward Garrett. Both women had read of the particularly gruesome mob murder of Henry Smith in Texas and wanted to organize a speaking tour to call attention to American lynchings.

Impey and Mayo asked Frederick Douglass to make the trip, but he declined, citing his age and health. He then suggested Wells, who enthusiastically accepted the invitation.{{sfn|Bay||p=4}}{{sfn|Duster, Michelle||p=13}} In 1894, before leaving the US for her second visit to Great Britain, Wells called on William Penn Nixon, the editor of the Daily Inter Ocean, a Republican newspaper in Chicago. It was the only major white paper that persistently denounced lynching.{{sfn|Wells–Duster, |1970|p=125}} After she told Nixon about her planned tour, he asked her to write for the newspaper while in England.{{sfn|Wells–Duster, |1970|p=125}} She was the first African-American woman to be a paid correspondent for a mainstream white newspaper.{{sfn|Elliott||p=242}}

Wells toured England, Scotland,{{Cite news |date=May 6, 1893 |title=Lynch Law in the Southern States |page=2 |work=St. Andrews Citizen}} with Eliza Wigham in attendance{{Cite news |date=April 29, 1893 |title=Lynch Law in the Southern States |page=8 |work=The Scotsman}} and Wales for two months, addressing audiences of thousands,{{sfn|Busby||p=150}} and rallying a moral crusade among the British.{{sfn|McBride||p=}} She relied heavily on her pamphlet Southern Horrors in her first tour, and showed shocking photographs of lynchings in America. On May 17, 1894, she spoke in Birmingham, West Midlands, at the Young Men's Christian Assembly and at Central Hall, staying in Edgbaston at 66 Gough Road.{{sfn|Enright||p=}} On June 25, 1894, at Bradford she gave a "sensational address, though in a quiet and restrained manner".{{cite news |title=Considerable interest was felt |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002863/18940630/042/0004 |access-date=December 23, 2022 |work=Bradford Weekly Telegraph |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=June 30, 1894 |page=4 col.4}}

On the last night of her second tour, the London Anti-Lynching Committee{{Cite web |title=On the Road: Anti-Lynching Lectures Around the U.S. and Abroad – A Voice for Justice – The University of Chicago Library |url=https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/collex/exhibits/voice-for-justice-life-and-legacy-ida-b-wells/road-anti-lynching-lectures-around-us-and-abroad/ |access-date=March 9, 2022 |website=www.lib.uchicago.edu |archive-date=March 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220308224140/https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/collex/exhibits/voice-for-justice-life-and-legacy-ida-b-wells/road-anti-lynching-lectures-around-us-and-abroad/ |url-status=live }} was established – reportedly the first anti-lynching organization in the world.{{sfn|Washington, Linn||p=}} Its founding members included many notable figure including the Duke of Argyll, Sir John Gorst, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lady Henry Somerset and some twenty Members of Parliament,{{sfn|Myrick-Harris||p=}} with activist Florence Balgarnie as the honorary secretary.{{sfn|Paisana ||p=197}}

As a result of her two lecture tours in Britain, Wells received significant coverage in the British and American press. Many of the articles published by the latter at the time of her return to the United States were hostile personal critiques, rather than reports of her anti-lynching positions and beliefs. The New York Times, for example, called her "a slanderous and nasty-minded Mulatress".{{sfn|Smith, David||p=}} Despite these attacks from the American press, Wells had nevertheless gained extensive recognition and credibility, and an international audience of supporters for her cause.{{sfn|Zackodnik|pp=268–270}} Wells's tours in Britain even influenced public opinion to the extent that British textile manufacturers fought back with economic strategies, imposing a temporary boycott on Southern cotton that pressured southern businessmen to condemn the practice of lynching publicly.{{Cite book |title=Women in sociology: a bio-bibliographical sourcebook |date=1991 |publisher=Greenwood Press |editor=Mary Jo Deegan |isbn=0-313-26085-0 |location=New York |page=436 |oclc=22181691}}

File:Ferdinand Lee Barnett about 1900 (cropped).jpg (c. 1900). Wells married Barnett in 1895.]]

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File:Graves of Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) and Ferdinand Lee Barnett (1852–1936) at Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago.jpg]]

On June 27, 1895, in Chicago at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Wells married attorney Ferdinand Lee Barnett,{{sfn|"Miss Wells", June 13,|1895|p=}} a widower with two sons, Ferdinand Barnett and Albert Graham Barnett (1886–1962). Ferdinand Lee Barnett, who lived in Chicago, was a prominent attorney, civil rights activist, and journalist. Like Wells, he spoke widely against lynchings and in support of the civil rights of African Americans. Wells and Barnett had met in 1893, working together on a pamphlet protesting the lack of Black representation at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Barnett founded The Chicago Conservator, the first Black newspaper in Chicago, in 1878. Wells began writing for the paper in 1893, later acquired a partial ownership interest, and after marrying Barnett, assumed the role of editor.{{sfn|Ritchie||p=165}}

Wells's marriage to Barnett was a legal union as well as a partnership of ideas and actions. Both were journalists, as well as established activists with a shared commitment to civil rights. In an interview, Wells's daughter Alfreda said that the two had "like interests" and that their journalist careers were "intertwined". This sort of close working relationship between a wife and husband was unusual at the time, as women often played more traditional domestic roles in a marriage.{{sfn|Schechter||p=176}}

In addition to Barnett's two children from his previous marriage, the couple had four more: Charles Aked Barnett (1896–1957), Herman Kohlsaat Barnett (1897–1975), Ida Bell Wells Barnett Jr. (1901–1988), and Alfreda Marguerita Barnett (married surname Duster; 1904–1983). Charles Aked Barnett's middle name was the surname of Charles Frederic Aked (1864–1941), an influential British-born-turned-American progressive Protestant clergyman who, in 1894, while pastor of the Pembrooke Baptist Church in Liverpool, England, befriended Wells, endorsed her anti-lynching campaign, and hosted her during her second speaking tour in England in 1894.{{sfn|Jordan, Brucella Wiggins ||pp=195–196}}

Wells began writing her autobiography, Crusade for Justice (1928), but never finished the book; edited by her daughter Alfreda Barnett Duster, it was posthumously published, in 1970, as Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells.{{sfn|Black, Patti Carr||p=}}{{sfn|Duster, Alfreda||p=}}In a chapter of Crusade For Justice, titled "A Divided Duty", Wells described the challenge of splitting her time between family and work. She continued to work after the birth of her first child, traveling and bringing the infant Charles with her. Although she tried to balance her roles as a mother and as a national activist, it was alleged that she was not always successful. Susan B. Anthony said she seemed "distracted".{{sfn|Tichi||p=340 (note 16)}}

The establishment by Wells of Chicago's first kindergarten prioritizing Black children, located in the lecture room of the Bethel AME Church, demonstrates how her public activism and her personal life were connected; as her great-granddaughter Michelle Duster notes: "When her older children started getting of school age, then she recognized that black children did not have the same kind of educational opportunities as some other students .... And so, her attitude was, 'Well since it doesn't exist, we'll create it ourselves.{{'"}}{{sfn|Nettles, Arionne Alyssa||p=}}

The 19th century's acknowledged leader for African-American civil rights, Frederick Douglass praised Wells's work, giving her introductions and sometimes financial support for her investigations. When he died in 1895, Wells was perhaps at the height of her notoriety, but many men and women were ambivalent or against a woman taking the lead in Black civil rights at a time when women were not seen as, and often not allowed to be, leaders by the wider society.{{sfn|Seymour||p=333}} The new leading voices, Booker T. Washington, his rival, W. E. B. Du Bois, and more traditionally minded women activists, often viewed Wells as too radical.{{sfn|Palmer||pp=106–107}}

Wells encountered and sometimes collaborated with the others, but they also had many disagreements, while also competing for attention for their ideas and programs. For example, there are differing in accounts for why Wells's name was excluded from the original list of founders of the NAACP. In his autobiography Dusk of Dawn, Du Bois implied that Wells chose not to be included.{{sfn|Du Bois|1940|p=224 }} However, in her autobiography, Wells stated that Du Bois deliberately excluded her from the list.{{Sfn|Wells–Duster, |1970|p=322 }}

Having settled in Chicago, Wells continued her anti-lynching work while becoming more focused on the civil rights of African Americans. She worked with national civil rights leaders to protest a major exhibition, she was active in the national women's club movement, and she ultimately ran for a position in the Illinois State Senate. She also was passionate about women's rights and suffrage. She was a spokeswoman and an advocate for women being successful in the workplace, having equal opportunities, and creating a name for themselves.{{Cite book |first=Kristina |last=DuRocher |title=Ida B. Wells: Social Activist and Reformer. |date=2016 |publisher=Taylor and Francis |isbn=978-1-317-66219-8 |oclc=957700358}}{{Page needed|date=March 2023}}

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Wells was an active member of the National Equal Rights League (NERL), founded in 1864, and was their representative calling on President Woodrow Wilson to end discrimination in government jobs.{{sfn|Biography||p=}}{{sfn|Rooney & Lemerand||p=650}} In 1914, she served as president of NERL's Chicago bureau.{{sfn|Doenecke||pages=358–359}}

In 1911, Wells attended the second annual Single Tax Conference.{{Cite web |url=https://cooperative-individualism.org/single-tax-conference-1911-nov.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=January 8, 2025 |archive-date=December 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241229063836/https://cooperative-individualism.org/single-tax-conference-1911-nov.pdf |url-status=live }} This meeting, which promoted the ideology of Land Value Tax, was moved from its original location to protest against the hotel's discrimination against African Americans at the conference banquet.https://web.archive.org/web/20150722082516/http://www.cooperative-individualism.org/candeloro-dominic_single-tax-movement-and-progressivism-1979-125.pdf

In 1893, the World's Columbian Exposition was held in Chicago. Together with Frederick Douglass and other Black leaders, Wells organized a Black boycott of the fair, for the fair's lack of representation of African-American achievement in the exhibits.{{sfn|Schechter||pp=94–95}} Wells, Douglass, Irvine Garland Penn, and Wells's future husband, Ferdinand L. Barnett, wrote sections of the pamphlet The Reason Why: The Colored American Is Not in the World's Columbian Exposition, which detailed the progress of Blacks since their arrival in America and also exposed the basis of Southern lynchings.{{sfn|Wells, Douglass, Penn, Barnett, |1893|p=}} Wells later reported to Albion W. Tourgée that copies of the pamphlet had been distributed to more than 20,000 people at the fair.{{sfn|Portwood||pp=}} That year she started work with The Chicago Conservator, the oldest African-American newspaper in the city.{{sfn|Bonfiglio||p=C2}}

Living in Chicago in the late 19th century, Wells was very active in the national Woman's club movement. In 1893, she organized The Women's Era Club, a first-of-its-kind civic club for African-American women in Chicago. Wells recruited veteran Chicago activist Mary Richardson Jones to serve as the first chair of the new club in 1894; Jones recruited for the organization and lent it considerable prestige.{{Cite book |title=Notable Black American Women |date=2003 |publisher=Gale Research |isbn=0-8103-4749-0 |editor-last=Smith |editor-first=Jessie Carney |editor-link=Jessie Carney Smith |volume=3 |location=Detroit |chapter=Jones, Mary Jane Richardson |oclc=24468213 |editor-last2=Phelps |editor-first2=Shirelle}}{{Cite book |title=Women building Chicago, 1790–1990: a biographical dictionary |date=2001 |publisher=Indiana University Press |editor-first=Rima Lunin |editor-last=Schultz|editor2= Adele Hast |isbn=978-0-253-33852-5 |location=Bloomington, Indiana |oclc=44573291}} It would later be renamed the Ida B. Wells Club in her honor. In 1896, Wells took part in the meeting in Washington, D.C., that founded the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs.{{sfn|National Association of Colored Women's Clubs||p=}} After her death, the club advocated to have a housing project in Chicago named after the founder, Ida B. Wells, and succeeded, making history in 1939 as the first housing project named after a woman of color.{{sfn|Honoring Ida B. Wells||p=}} Wells also helped organize the National Afro-American Council, serving as the organization's first secretary.{{sfn|National Afro-American Council||p=}}

Wells received much support from other social activists and her fellow club women. Frederick Douglass praised her work: "You have done your people and mine a service... What a revelation of existing conditions your writing has been for me."{{sfn|Wells, Southern Horrors|1892|pages=3–5}}

Despite Douglass's praise, Wells was becoming a controversial figure among local and national women's clubs. This was evident when in 1899 the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs intended to meet in Chicago. Writing to the president of the association, Mary Terrell, Chicago organizers of the event stated that they would not cooperate in the meeting if it included Wells. When Wells learned that Terrell had agreed to exclude Wells, she called it "a staggering blow".{{Sfn|Wells–Duster, |1970|p=258 }}

In 1900, Wells was outraged when the Chicago Tribune published a series of articles suggesting adoption of a system of racial segregation in public schools. Given her experience as a schoolteacher in segregated systems in the South, she wrote to the publisher on the failures of segregated school systems and the successes of integrated public schools. She then went to his office and lobbied him. Unsatisfied, she enlisted the social reformer Jane Addams in her cause. Wells and the pressure group she put together with Addams are credited with stopping the adoption of an officially segregated school system.{{sfn|Pinar|2009|pp=77–79}}{{sfn|Gyimah||p=977}}

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Wells' role in the U.S. suffrage movement was inextricably linked to her lifelong crusade against racism, violence and discrimination towards African Americans. Her view of women's enfranchisement was pragmatic and political.{{sfn|Schechter||p=14}} Like all suffragists, she believed in women's right to vote, but she also saw enfranchisement as a way for Black women to become politically involved in their communities and to use their votes to elect African Americans, regardless of gender, to influential political office.{{sfn|Schechter||p=199}}

As a prominent Black suffragist, Wells held strong positions against racism, violence and lynching that brought her into conflict with leaders of largely white suffrage organizations. Perhaps the most notable example of this conflict was her public disagreement with Frances Willard, the first President of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).{{sfn|Wagner||p=}}

The WCTU was a predominantly white women's organization, with branches in every state and a growing membership, including in the Southern United States, where segregation laws and lynching occurred. With roots in the call for temperance and sobriety, the organization later became a powerful advocate of suffrage in the U.S.

In 1893 Wells and Willard travelled separately to Britain on lecture tours. Willard was promoting temperance as well as suffrage for women, and Wells was calling attention to lynching in the U.S. The basis of their dispute was Wells' public statements that Willard was silent on the issue of lynching.{{sfn|Wells–Duster, |1970|p=xviii }} Wells referred to an interview Willard had conducted during her tour of the American South, in which Willard had blamed African Americans' behavior for the defeat of temperance legislation. "The colored race multiplies like the locusts of Egypt", Willard had said, and "the grog shop is its center of power. The safety of women, of childhood, of the home is menaced in a thousand localities, so that men dare not go beyond the sight of their own roof tree."{{sfn|Pinar|2001|p=}}{{sfn|Willard||p=}}{{sfn|Truth-Telling||p=}}

Although Willard and her prominent supporter Lady Somerset were critical of Wells' comments, Wells was able to turn that into her favor, portraying their criticisms as attempts by powerful white leaders to "crush an insignificant colored woman".{{sfn|Schechter||p=102}}

Wells also dedicated a chapter in The Red Record to juxtapose the different positions that she and Willard held. The chapter titled "Miss Willard's Attitude" condemned Willard for using rhetoric that promoted violence and other crimes against African Americans in America.{{sfn|Wells, Red Record||p=84}}

Wells, her husband, and some members of their Bible study group, in 1908 founded the Negro Fellowship League (NFL), the first Black settlement house in Chicago.{{sfn|Mann||p=12}} The organization, in rented space, served as a reading room, library, activity center, and shelter for young Black men in the local community at a time when the local Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) did not allow Black men to become members. The NFL also assisted with job leads and entrepreneurial opportunities for new arrivals in Chicago from Southern States, notably those of the Great Migration.{{sfn|Wells, Chicago Daily News, |1911|p=}} During her involvement, the NFL advocated for women's suffrage and supported the Republican Party in Illinois.{{sfn|Schechter||p=194}}

In the years following her dispute with Willard, Wells continued her anti-lynching campaign and organizing in Chicago. She focused her work on Black women's suffrage in the city following the enactment of a new state law enabling partial women's suffrage. The Illinois Presidential and Municipal Suffrage Bill of 1913 (see Women's suffrage in Illinois) gave women in the state the right to vote for presidential electors, mayor, aldermen and most other local offices; but not for governor, state representatives or members of Congress.{{sfn|Illinois Senate Journal|1914|p=}}{{sfn|Illinois House Journal|1914|p=}} Illinois was the first state east of the Mississippi to grant women these voting rights.{{sfn|Grossman||p=}}

The prospect of passing the act, even one of partial enfranchisement, was the impetus for Wells and her White colleague Belle Squire to organize the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago on January 30, 1913.{{sfn|Alpha Suffrage Record,|1914|p=1}}{{Sfn|Bay||p=}}{{page needed|date=October 2020}} One of the most important Black suffrage organizations in Chicago, the Alpha Suffrage Club was founded as a way to further voting rights for all women, to teach Black women how to engage in civic matters, and to work to elect African Americans to city offices. Two years after its founding, the club played a significant role in electing Oscar De Priest as the first African American alderman in Chicago.{{sfn|Schechter||p=205}}

As Wells and Squire were organizing the Alpha Club, the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was organizing a suffrage parade in Washington D.C. Marching the day before the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson as president in 1913, suffragists from across the country gathered to demand universal suffrage.{{sfn|Boissoneault||p=}} Wells, together with a delegation of members from Chicago, attended. On the day of the march, the head of the Illinois delegation told the Wells delegates that the NAWSA wanted "to keep the delegation entirely white",{{sfn|Bay||p=290}} and all African-American suffragists, including Wells, were to walk at the end of the parade in a "colored delegation".{{sfn|Flexner & Fitzpatrick||p=318}}

Instead of going to the back with other African Americans, however, Wells waited with spectators as the parade was underway, and stepped into the white Illinois delegation as they passed by. She visibly linked arms with her white suffragist colleagues, Squire and Virginia Brooks, for the rest of the parade, demonstrating, according to The Chicago Defender, the universality of the women's civil rights movement.{{sfn|Stillion Southard||p=85}}

During World War I, the U.S. government placed Wells under surveillance, labeling her a dangerous "race agitator".{{sfn|Giddings, Sword Among Lions,|2008|pp=5–10}} She defied this threat by continuing civil rights work during this period with such figures as Marcus Garvey, Monroe Trotter, and Madam C. J. Walker.{{sfn|Giddings, Sword Among Lions,|2008|pp=5–10}} In 1917, Wells wrote a series of investigative reports for the Chicago Defender on the East St. Louis Race Riots.{{sfn|DeCosta-Willis|p=}} After almost thirty years away, Wells made her first trip back to the South in 1921 to investigate and publish a report on the Elaine massacre in Arkansas (published 1922).{{sfn|DeCosta-Willis|p=}}

In the 1920s, she participated in the struggle for African-American workers' rights, urging Black women's organizations to support the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, as it tried to gain legitimacy.{{sfn|Giddings, Sword Among Lions,|2008|pp=5–10}} However, she lost the presidency of the National Association of Colored Women in 1924 to the more diplomatic Mary Bethune.{{sfn|McCluskey||p=8}} To challenge what she viewed as problems for African Americans in Chicago, Wells started a political organization named Third Ward Women's Political Club in 1927. In 1928, she tried to become a delegate to the Republican National Convention but lost to Oscar De Priest. Her feelings toward the Republican Party became more mixed due to what she viewed as the Hoover administration's poor stance on civil rights and attempts to promote a "Lily-White" policy in Southern Republican organizations. In 1930, Wells unsuccessfully sought elective office, running as an Independent for a seat in the Illinois Senate, against the Republican Party candidate, Adelbert Roberts.{{sfn|DeCosta-Willis|p=}}{{sfn|Giddings, Sword Among Lions,|2008|pp=5–10}}

Ida B. Wells is widely regarded as an influential figure in Black feminist thought and activism.{{cite book |last=Wells-Barnett |first=Ida B. |title=Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought |editor-last=Guy-Sheftall |editor-first=Beverly |publisher=New Press |year=1995 |chapter=Lynch Law in America |pages=100–104}} Her work helped establish the foundation of intersectional feminism, which explores how racism and sexism intersect in the lives of Black women. As a journalist, educator, and anti-lynching activist, Wells addressed the challenges Black women faced at the convergence of racism and sexism.{{cite book |last=Collins |first=Patricia Hill |title=Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment |edition=2nd |publisher=Routledge |year=2000 |page=24}}Her persistence on Black women's autonomy and leadership influenced later generations of activists and scholars.{{cite book |last=Collins |first=Patricia Hill |title=Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment |edition=2nd |publisher=Routledge |year=2000 |pages=33–34}}

Wells' activism often placed her at an imbalance with both white-dominated suffrage organizations and Black male leadership, as she criticized the exclusion of Black women's voices from both movements. Her refusal to march at the back of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington, D.C., is frequently cited as a critical moment that demonstrated her resistance to racial segregation within feminist movements.{{cite book |last=Collins |first=Patricia Hill |title=Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment |edition=2nd |publisher=Routledge |year=2000 |pages=86–87}}{{cite book |last=Collins |first=Patricia Hill |title=Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment |edition=2nd |publisher=Routledge |year=2000 |page=125}}

Scholars such as Beverly Guy-Sheftall and Patricia Hill Collins have emphasized Wells' role in shaping a distinct Black feminist tradition. {{cite book |last=Guy-Sheftall |first=Beverly |editor=Guy-Sheftall, Beverly |title=Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought |publisher=New Press |year=1995 |pages=1–22 |chapter=The Evolution of Feminist Consciousness Among African American Women}} Her focus on collective action, documentation of racial violence, and advocacy for both racial justice and gender equality prefigured key principles of modern Black feminist theory.{{cite book |last=Collins |first=Patricia Hill |title=Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment |edition=2nd |publisher=Routledge |year=2000 |pages=24, 33–34}} Associations like the National Association of Colored Women (NACW), which Wells co-founded, provided a platform for Black women's voices in national reform movements. {{cite web |title=Ida B. Wells |url=https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/ida-b-wells-barnett |website=National Women’s History Museum |access-date=2025-04-21}}

Current Black feminist activists continue to draw inspiration from Wells' legacy. Her life and writings are often cited in discussions surrounding systematic racism, police violence, and reproductive justice. {{cite web |last=Crenshaw |first=Kimberlé |author2=Ritchie, Andrea |title=Say Her Name: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women |url=https://www.aapf.org/sayhernamereport |website=African American Policy Forum |year=2020 |access-date=2025-04-21}} In recent years, campaigns such as the #SayHerName movement have reflected Wells' emphasis on naming and confronting racial violence against Black women. {{cite web |last=Crenshaw |first=Kimberlé |author2=Ritchie, Andrea |title=Say Her Name: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women |url=https://www.aapf.org/sayhernamereport |website=African American Policy Forum |year=2020 |access-date=2025-04-21}}

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Wells died of kidney disease on March 25, 1931, in Chicago.{{Cite web |title="Mrs. Ida Barnett, Colored Leader, 62, Dies Suddenly," The Chicago Tribune, March 25, 1931 {{!}} DPLA |url=https://blackwomenssuffrage.dp.la/collections/ida-b-wells/ibwells-0008-010-14 |access-date=2025-01-31 |website=Black Women's Suffrage {{!}} DPLA}}{{Cite web |title=Ida B. Wells and the Light of Truth |url=https://www.usmint.gov/news/inside-the-mint/ida-b-wells-light-of-truth?srsltid=AfmBOorD0ClS2ZDF7dZ5QRTIOTnKYubKWt3FA5cdpCMhqTUSXnHhZ1bQ |access-date=2025-01-31 |website=www.usmint.gov |language=en}} Since Wells's death, with the rise of mid-20th-century civil rights activism, and the 1971 posthumous publication of her autobiography, interest in her life and legacy has grown. Awards have been established in her name by the National Association of Black Journalists,{{sfn|NABJ||p=}} the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University,{{sfn|Northwestern University||p=}} the Coordinating Council for Women in History,{{sfn|CCWH|2012|p=}} the Type Investigations (formerly the Investigative Fund),{{sfn|Type Investigations ||p=}} the University of Louisville,{{sfn|University of Louisville ||p=}} and the New York County Lawyers' Association (awarded annually since 2003),{{sfn|New York County Lawyers Association||p=}} among many others. The Ida B. Wells Memorial Foundation and the Ida B. Wells Museum have also been established to protect, preserve and promote Wells's legacy.{{sfn|Wells-Barnett Museum ||p=}} In her hometown of Holly Springs, Mississippi, there is an Ida B. Wells-Barnett Museum named in her honor that acts as a cultural center of African-American history.{{sfn|Wells-Barnett Museum (home page) ||p= }}

In 1941, the Public Works Administration (PWA) built a Chicago Housing Authority public housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago; it was named the Ida B. Wells Homes in her honor. The buildings were demolished in August 2011 due to changing demographics and ideas about such housing.{{sfn|Wikimapia||p=}}

In 1988, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.{{sfn|National Women's Hall of Fame||p=}} In August that year, she was also inducted into the Chicago Women's Hall of Fame.{{sfn|Burleigh||p=2; section 6}} Molefi Kete Asante included Wells on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans in 2002.{{sfn|Asante||p=}} In 2011, Wells was inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame for her writings.{{sfn|Chicago Literary Hall of Fame||p=}}

On February 1, 1990, at the start of Black History Month in the U.S., the U.S. Postal Service dedicated a 25¢ stamp commemorating Wells in a ceremony at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. The stamp, designed by Thomas Blackshear II, features a portrait of Wells illustrated from a composite of photographs of her taken during the mid-1890s. Wells is the 25th African-American entry – and fourth African-American woman – on a U.S. postage stamp. She is the 13th in the Postal Service's Black Heritage series.{{sfn|USPS: Women stamps||p=3}}{{sfn|USPS: African American stamps||p=2}}{{sfn|Sama||p=11 (section 14)}}

In 2006, the Harvard Kennedy School commissioned a portrait of Wells.{{sfn|Portrait||p=}} In 2007, the Ida B. Wells Association was founded by University of Memphis philosophy graduate students to promote discussion of philosophical issues arising from the African-American experience and to provide a context in which to mentor undergraduates. The Philosophy Department at the University of Memphis has sponsored the Ida B. Wells conference every year since 2007.{{sfn|University of Memphis||p=}}

On February 12, 2012, Mary E. Flowers, a member of the Illinois House of Representatives, introduced House Resolution 770 during the 97th General Assembly, honoring Ida B. Wells by declaring March 25, 2012 – the {{ordinal to word|{{age|format=raw|1931|05|25|2020|05|25}}}} anniversary of her death – as Ida B. Wells Day in the State of Illinois.{{sfn|Flowers||p=}}

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In August 2014, Wells was the subject of an episode of the BBC Radio 4 programme Great Lives, in which her work was championed by Baroness Oona King.{{sfn|King, Oona||p=}} Wells was honored with a Google Doodle on July 16, 2015, which would have been her 153rd birthday.{{sfn|Cruickshank||p=}}{{sfn|Jalabi||p=}}{{sfn|Berenson||p=}}{{sfn|Cavna||p=}}

In 2016, the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting was launched in Memphis, Tennessee, with the purpose of promoting investigative journalism.{{sfn|"Our Creation Story"||p=}} Following in the footsteps of Wells, this society encourages minority journalists to expose injustices perpetuated by the government and defend people who are susceptible to being taken advantage of.{{sfn|"Our Creation Story"||p=}} This organization was created with much support from the Open Society Foundations, Ford Foundation, and CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.{{sfn|"Our Creation Story"||p=}}

In 2018, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice opened, including a reflection space dedicated to Wells, a selection of quotes by her, and a stone inscribed with her name.{{sfn|Brown, DeNeen L.||p=}}{{sfn|Slevin||p=}}

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On March 8, 2018, The New York Times published a belated obituary for her,{{sfn|Dickerson||p=}} in a series marking International Women's Day and entitled "Overlooked", which set out to acknowledge that, since 1851, the newspaper's obituary pages had been dominated by white men, while notable women – including Wells – had been ignored.{{sfn|Danielle||p=}}{{sfn|Linton & Dickerson}}

In July 2018, Chicago's City Council officially renamed Congress Parkway as Ida B. Wells Drive;{{sfn|Pavithra ||p=}} it is the first downtown Chicago street named after a woman of color.{{sfn|Pratt & Byrne||p=}}

On February 12, 2019, a blue plaque, provided by the Nubian Jak Community Trust, was unveiled by the Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Yvonne Mosquito, at the Edgbaston Community Centre, Birmingham, England, commemorating Wells's stay in a house on the exact site of 66 Gough Road where she stayed in 1893 during her speaking tour of the British Isles.{{sfn|Washington, Linn||p=}}{{sfn|I Am Birmingham||}}

On July 13, 2019, a marker for her was unveiled in Mississippi, on the northeast corner of Holly Springs' Courthouse Square. The marker was dedicated by the Wells–Barnett Museum and the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation.{{sfn|Klinger||p=}}

In 2019, a new middle school in Washington, D.C., was named in her honor.{{sfn|Collins, Sam P. K.||p=24}} On November 7, 2019, a Mississippi Writers Trail historical marker was installed at Rust College in Holly Springs, commemorating the legacy of Ida B. Wells.{{sfn|Mississippi Writers Trail||p=}}

On May 4, 2020, she was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize special citation, "for her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching".{{sfn|Pulitzer|2020|}}{{sfn|Greene||p=}} The Pulitzer Prize board announced that it would donate at least $50,000 in support of Wells's mission to recipients who would be announced at a later date.{{sfn|Pulitzer|2020|}}

In 2021, a public high school in Portland, Oregon, that had been named for Woodrow Wilson was renamed Ida B. Wells High School.{{cite news |title=PPS changes Wilson HS name to honor Ida B. Wells-Barnett |url=https://www.koin.com/news/education/pps-changes-wilson-hs-name-to-honor-ida-b-wells-barnett/ |last=Young |first=Jenny |publisher=KOIN |location=Portland, Oregon |date=January 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210203211318/https://www.koin.com/news/education/pps-changes-wilson-hs-name-to-honor-ida-b-wells-barnett/ |archive-date=February 3, 2021 |url-status=live |access-date=January 11, 2022}}

In 2025, Wells was honored on a U.S. quarter part of the final year of the American Women quarters program.{{Cite web |date=October 17, 2023 |title=United States Mint Announces 2025 American Women Quarters™ Program Coins |url=https://www.usmint.gov/news/press-releases/united-states-mint-announces-2025-american-women-quarters-program-coins/ |access-date=October 17, 2023 |website=United States Mint |archive-date=December 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231201102308/https://www.usmint.gov/news/press-releases/united-states-mint-announces-2025-american-women-quarters-program-coins |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |title=American Women Quarters Program |url=https://www.usmint.gov/coins/coin-programs/american-women-quarters-program/ |access-date=2025-02-17 |website=US Mint |language=en-US}} The quarter's launch was celebrated at Chicago's DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center in partnership with the United States Mint and the National Women's History Museum on February 12, 2025.{{Cite web |title=Historic Change: Celebrating the Life and Legacy Ida B. Wells |url=https://events.womenshistory.org/events/historic-change-ida-b-wells/?_ga=2.28430972.1355470348.1739206783-667838388.1737998455 |access-date=2025-02-17 |website=events.womenshistory.org |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Whiting |first=Susan |date=2025-02-14 |title=Susan Whiting: Chicago activist Ida B. Wells changes the face of American currency |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/14/opinion-ida-b-wells-quarter-chicago/ |access-date=2025-02-17 |website=Chicago Tribune |language=en-US}}

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In 2021, Chicago erected a monument to Wells in the Bronzeville neighborhood, near where she lived and close to the site of the former Ida B. Wells Homes housing project.{{sfn|Shaw||p=}} Officially called The Light of Truth Ida B. Wells National Monument (based on her quote, "the way to right wrongs is to cast the light of truth upon them"), it was created by sculptor Richard Hunt.{{cite web|title=A Monument To Journalist, Civil Rights Activist Ida B. Wells Is Unveiled In Chicago|website=NPR|date=July 2021|url=https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1012203967/ida-b-wells-new-monument-unveiled-in-chicago|access-date=August 7, 2021|archive-date=July 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210704051644/https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1012203967/ida-b-wells-new-monument-unveiled-in-chicago|url-status=live}}

Also in 2021, Memphis dedicated a new Ida B. Wells plaza with a life-sized statue of Wells. The monument is adjacent to the historic Beale Street Baptist Church, where Wells produced the Free Speech newspaper.{{cite web|title=Memphis Unveils New Ida. B. Wells Monument|url=http://www.southernhollows.com/memphisidabwellsstatue.html|website=Southern Hollows Podcast|access-date=August 7, 2021|archive-date=August 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807143555/http://www.southernhollows.com/memphisidabwellsstatue.html|url-status=live}}

In 1949, the anthology radio drama Destination Freedom recapped parts of her life in the episode "Woman with a Mission", written by Richard Durham.{{cite book |editor1-last=MacDonald |editor1-first=J. Fred |editor-link=J. Fred MacDonald |title=Richard Durham's Destination Freedom |date=1989 |publisher=Praeger |location=New York |isbn=0-275-93138-2|page=x}}

The PBS documentary series American Experience aired on December 19, 1989 – season 2, episode 11 (one-hour) – "Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice", written and directed by William Greaves. The documentary featured excerpts of Wells's memoirs read by Toni Morrison.{{sfn|Brody||p=}} ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NUyPFAJE9M viewable] via YouTube)

In 1995, the play In Pursuit of Justice: A One-Woman Play About Ida B. Wells, written by Wendy D. Jones (born 1953) and starring Janice Jenkins,{{sfn|Jones||p=}} was produced. It draws on historical incidents and speeches from Wells's autobiography, and features fictional letters to a friend. It won four awards from the AUDELCO (Audience Development Committee Inc.), an organization that honors Black theater.{{sfn|Viagas||p=}}

In 1999, a staged reading of the play Iola's Letter, written by Michon Boston (née Michon Alana Boston; born 1962), was performed at Howard University in Washington, D.C., under the direction of Vera J. Katz,{{sfn|Hentoff March 28, 1994}} including then-student Chadwick Boseman among the cast. The play is inspired by the real-life events that compelled a 29-year-old Ida B. Wells to launch an anti-lynching crusade from Memphis in 1892 using her newspaper, Free Speech.{{sfn|Perkins & Stephens||p=}}

Wells's life is the subject of Constant Star (2002), a widely performed musical drama by Tazewell Thompson,{{sfn|Gates, Anita||p=}} who was inspired to write it by the 1989 documentary Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice.{{sfn|Myrick-Harris||p=}} Thompson's play explores Wells as "a seminal figure in Post-Reconstruction America".{{sfn|Gates, Anita||p=}}

Wells was played by Adilah Barnes in the 2004 film Iron Jawed Angels. The film dramatizes a moment during the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913 when Wells ignored instructions to march with the segregated parade units and crossed the lines to march with the other members of her Illinois chapter.{{sfn|Stetz||p=}}

• {{Cite book |url=https://digital.lib.niu.edu/islandora/object/niu-gildedage%253A24320 |title=The Arkansas Race Riot (Manuscript)|year=1920 |via=Northern Illinois University Digital Library}}
• {{Cite book |title=Mob Rule in New Orleans: Robert Charles and His Fight to Death, the Story of His Life, Burning Human Beings Alive, Other Lynching Statistics |url=https://archive.org/stream/mobruleinneworle14976gut/14976.txt |date=1900}}
• {{Cite book |title=The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States |url=https://archive.org/details/theredrecord14977gut |date=1895}}
• {{Cite book |year=1892 |title=Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases |url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/634281e0-4abc-0134-346c-00505686a51c |location=New York |publisher=New York Age Print |via=Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, New York Public Library}}
• [https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Wells_Crusade.pdf Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells]. 1970 — via [https://www.sas.upenn.edu/ The University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences].

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{{#tag:ref|48th Illinois General Assembly, Regular Biennial Session:

1. May 7, 1913: Senate Bill 63 – State Senator Hugh Stewart Magill, Jr. (1868–1958), from Princeton, sponsored a limited women's suffrage bill. The Illinois Senate (the Upper House) passed it May 7, 1913, by a vote of 29 to 15 – three more than the required majority.

2. June 11, 1913: The House posed a stiffer challenge, right up to the day of the vote. The Illinois House of Representatives (the Lower House) passed it June 11, 1913, by a vote of 83 to 58.

3. June 26, 1913: Governor Edward F. Dunne signed the bill June 26, 1913, in Springfield. The signing ceremony was filmed for the movies.

{{#tag:ref|Vera J. Katz (née Vera Joy Weintraub; born 1936) is Professor Emerita from Howard University, Department of Theater Arts, where she taught acting and directing for 32 years – from 1969 to about 2001. [Like many of the writers cited in this article], Katz has devoted much of her career to fighting bigotry. ({{harvnb|Hentoff March 28, 1994}})|name="Vera-Katz-bio"}}

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• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Allen}} |last1=Allen |first1=James E. |date=2011 |orig-date=1994 |title=Without Sanctuary: Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in America |location=Santa Fe |publisher=Twin Palms Publisher }}

Print:

1. Book (1st ed.) (July 31, 1999); {{OCLC|936079991}}
2. Book (10th ed.) (February 1, 2000): {{OCLC|994750311|751138477}}; {{ISBN|978-0-944092-69-9}}
3. Book (11th ed.) (2011): {{OCLC|1075938297}}

Exhibitions, film, digital:

4. Roth Horowitz Gallery, 160A East 70th Street, Manhattan (January 14, 2000 – February 12, 2000); Andrew Roth and Glenn Horowitz, gallery co-owners, Witness: Photographs of Lynchings from the Collection of James Allen and John Littlefield, organized by Andrew Roth
5. New York Historical Society (March 14, 2000 – October 1, 2000); {{OCLC|809988821}}, Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America, curated by James Allen and Julia Hotton

6. Andy Warhol Museum (September 22, 2001 – February 21, 2002), The Without Sanctuary Project, curated by James Allen; co-directed by Jessica Arcand and Margery King
7. Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park (May 1, 2002 – December 31, 2002), Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America; {{OCLC|782970109}}, curated by Joseph F. Jordan, PhD (né Joseph Ferdinand Jordan Jr.; born 1951); Douglas H. Quin, PhD (born 1956) exhibition designer; National Park Service MLK site team: Frank Catroppa, Saudia Muwwakkil, and Melissa English-Rias

8. The 2002 short film, Without Sanctuary, directed by Matt Dibble (né Matthew Phillips Dibble; born 1959) and produced by Joseph F. Jordan, PhD (né Joseph Ferdinand Jordan Jr.; born 1951), accompanied the 2002–2003 exhibition by the same name, Without Sanctuary, at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park (co-sponsored by Emory University)

9. Digital format (2008): {{OCLC|1179211921|439904269}} (Overview, Movie, Photos, Forum)
10. {{URL|https://withoutsanctuary.org/|Official website}}; part of collection at the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University

• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Alpha Suffrage Record,|1914|p=1}} |last1=Alpha Suffrage Record, The |date=March 18, 1914 |title=The Alpha Suffrage Club |url=http://livinghistoryofillinois.com/pdf_files/The%20Alpha%20Suffrage%20Record,%20Volume%201,%20Number%201,%20March%2018,%201914.pdf |type=inaugural newsletter |volume=1 |issue=1 |location=Chicago |publisher=Alpha Suffrage Club |access-date=October 26, 2020 |via=Living History of Illinois and Chicago, Neil Gale, Curator |author1-link=Alpha Suffrage Club#Alpha Suffrage Record |archive-date=November 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211123171350/http://livinghistoryofillinois.com/pdf_files/The%20Alpha%20Suffrage%20Record,%20Volume%201,%20Number%201,%20March%2018,%201914.pdf |url-status=live }}
• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Asante||p=}} |last1=Asante |first1=Molefi Kete |author-link1=Molefi Kete Asante |date=2002 |chapter=Ida B. Wells-Barnett |title=100 Greatest African Americans: A Biographical Encyclopedia |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HwuGTSnc2CsC&pg=PA309 |location=Amherst, New York |publisher=Prometheus Books |pages=110, 309–311 |isbn=1-57392-963-8 |lccn=2002018993 |oclc=1018143510 }}

• {{cite journal |ref={{SfnRef|Baker||p=}} |last1=Baker |first1=Lee D. |author-link1=Lee D. Baker |date=February 2012 |title=Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Fighting and Writing for Justice |url=https://photos.state.gov/libraries/amgov/30145/publications-english/Black_Women_Leaders_eJ.pdf |access-date=March 1, 2015 |journal=eJournal USA |publisher=U.S. Department of State |volume=16 |issue=6 |pages=6–8 |issn=1949-7644 |oclc=700047682 |archive-date=May 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210517120331/https://photos.state.gov/libraries/amgov/30145/publications-english/Black_Women_Leaders_eJ.pdf }}
• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Bay||p=}} |last1=Bay |first1=Mia |author-link1=Mia Bay |year=2009 |title=To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sqf-y9pcfsEC&pg=PP1 |publisher=Hill & Wang |isbn=978-0-8090-1646-4 |oclc=1032224630 |access-date=September 15, 2011 }}
• {{cite magazine |ref={{SfnRef|Berenson||p=}} |last1=Berenson |first1=Tessa C. |date=July 16, 2015 |title=Today's Google Doodle Celebrates Journalist Ida B. Wells' Birthday |url=https://time.com/3960699/google-doodle-ida-b-wells/ |access-date=January 14, 2019 |magazine=Time.com |type=online |issn=0040-781X |archive-date=December 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181227143049/http://time.com/3960699/google-doodle-ida-b-wells/ |url-status=live }}
• {{cite web|ref={{SfnRef|Biography||p=}}|url=https://www.biography.com/activist/ida-b-wells|title=Ida B. Wells|date=January 16, 2020|orig-date=April 27, 2017|access-date=November 7, 2020|website=Biography}}
• {{cite web |ref={{SfnRef|Black, Patti Carr ||p=}} |url=http://www.mshistorynow.mdah.ms.gov/articles/49/ida-b-wells-a-courageous-voice-for-civil-rights |title=Ida B. Wells: A Courageous Voice for Civil Rights |last=Black |first=Patti Carr |author-link=Patti Carr Black |date=February 2001 |website=Mississippi History Now |publisher=Mississippi Historical Society |type=online publication |access-date=February 13, 2019 |archive-date=February 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190221234724/http://www.mshistorynow.mdah.ms.gov/articles/49/ida-b-wells-a-courageous-voice-for-civil-rights |url-status=live }}
• {{cite journal |ref={{SfnRef|Boissoneault||p=}} |last1=Boissoneault |first1=Lorraine |date=January 21, 2017 |title=The Original Women's March on Washington and the Suffragists Who Paved the Way |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/original-womens-march-washington-and-suffragists-who-paved-way-180961869/ |access-date=November 20, 2017 |journal=Smithsonian |type=online |issn=0037-7333 |archive-date=November 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171103112233/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/original-womens-march-washington-and-suffragists-who-paved-way-180961869/ |url-status=live }}
• {{cite journal |ref={{SfnRef|Danielle||p=}} |last1=Danielle |first1=Britni |date=March 8, 2018 |title=The New York Times Is Finally Giving Ida B. Wells Her Due |url=https://www.essence.com/news/ida-b-wells-new-york-times/ |access-date=March 31, 2019 |journal=Essence |page= |pages= |lccn= |oclc= |quote= |archive-date=March 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331105939/https://www.essence.com/news/ida-b-wells-new-york-times/ |url-status=live }}
• {{cite magazine |ref={{SfnRef|Brody||p=}} |last1=Brody |first1=Richard |author-link1=Richard Brody |date=July 27, 2020 |title=What to Stream – Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice |url=https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/movies/ida-b-wells-a-passion-for-justice |access-date=November 12, 2020 |department=Goings on About Town: Movies |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=96 |issue=21 |page=8 }}{{space|1}}{{OCLC|877711126|show=all}}. {{ISSN|0028-792X}}.
• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Busby||p=150}} |date=1992 |chapter=Ida B. Wells (Barnett) |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/daughtersofafric00busb/page/150/mode/2up |editor1-last=Busby |editor1-first=Margaret |editor1-link=Margaret Busby |title=Daughters of Africa |chapter-url-access=registration |publisher=Jonathan Cape / Ballantine Books |page=150 |isbn=0-345-38268-4 |lccn=93-90470 |oclc=925350164 |access-date=November 1, 2020 |via=Internet Archive }}

• {{cite journal |ref={{SfnRef|Cardon||p=}} |last1=Cardon |first1=Dustin |date=February 27, 2018 |title=Ida B. Wells |url=http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2018/feb/27/ida-b-wells/ |access-date=February 14, 2019 |journal=Jackson Free Press |type=blog |location=Jackson, Mississippi |archive-date=March 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180305233808/http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2018/feb/27/ida-b-wells/ |url-status=live }} Note: the article is not in the print edition ([https://issuu.com/jacksonfreepress back issues] at ISSUU).
• {{cite journal |ref={{SfnRef|Cairnes||p=343}} |last1=Cairnes |first1=John Elliott |author-link1=John Elliott Cairnes |date=August 1865 |title=The Negro Suffrage |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mmoJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA343 |journal=Macmillan's Magazine |volume=12 |issue=68 |pages=334–343 }}
• {{cite web |url=https://theccwh.org/ccwh-awards/wells-graduate-student-fellowship/ |title=Ida B. Wells Graduate Student Fellowship |last=CCWH |date=November 9, 2012 |publisher=Coordinating Council for Women in History |location=Columbia, Maryland |access-date=February 22, 2017 }} (awarded annually since 1999)
• {{cite journal |ref={{SfnRef|Chesapeake, O. & S. R. Co. v. Wells,|1887|p=5}} |title=Chesapeake, Ohio & Southwestern Railroad Company v. Ida B. Wells. (Supreme Court of Tennessee; April Term, 1887) |journal=Southwestern Reporter |url=https://archive.org/details/southwesternrep07unkngoog/page/n24/mode/2up |series=(Vol. 4. May 16, 1887 – August 1, 1887) |year=1886 |location=St. Paul |publisher=West Publishing Company |page=5 |access-date=May 12, 2012 |via=Internet Archive |quote={{nowrap| ... }} her persistence was not in good faith {{nowrap| ... }} }}
• {{cite web |ref={{SfnRef|Chicago Literary Hall of Fame||p=}} |url=https://chicagoliteraryhof.org/inductees/profile/ida-b.-wells/ |title=Ida B. Wells |date=November 15, 2011 |website=chicagoliteraryhof.org |publisher=Chicago Literary Hall of Fame |access-date=October 17, 2017 |archive-date=October 18, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018013341/https://chicagoliteraryhof.org/inductees/profile/ida-b.-wells |url-status=live }} (inducted during the Second Annual Ceremony at the Harold Washington Library November 15, 2011; the article includes a video.)
• {{cite web |ref={{SfnRef|Cruickshank||p=}} |url=https://doodles.google/doodle/ida-b-wells-153rd-birthday/ |title=Ida B. Wells' 153rd Birthday |last=Cruickshank |first=Matt |date=July 16, 2015 |website=Google Doodle |access-date=January 14, 2019}} [https://doodles.google/ Google Doodles Archive] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140424191257/https://www.google.com/doodles |date=April 24, 2014 }}.
• {{cite journal |ref={{SfnRef|Curry||=p}} |last1=Curry |first1=Tommy J. |author-link1=Tommy Curry (professor) |date=Fall 2012 |title=The Fortune of Wells: Ida B. Wells-Barnett's Use of T. Thomas Fortune's Philosophy of Social Agitation as a Prolegomenon to Militant Civil Rights Activism |journal= Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society|publisher=Charles Sanders Peirce Society |volume=48 |issue=4 |pages=456–482 |lccn=0009-1774 |oclc=844279727 |doi=10.2979/trancharpeirsoc.48.4.456 |s2cid=145734549 }}

• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|DeCosta-Willis|p=}} |last1=DeCosta-Willis |first1=Miriam |author-link=Miriam DeCosta-Willis |date=March 1, 2018 |orig-date=October 8, 2017 |chapter=Ida B. Wells-Barnett |chapter-url=https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/ida-b-wells-barnett/ |title=Tennessee Encyclopedia |type=online |publisher=Tennessee Historical Society |access-date=February 13, 2019 }}
• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Doenecke||p=358–359}} |last1=Doenecke |first1=Justus Drew |author-link1=Justus Drew Doenecke |date=2002 |chapter=Wells-Barnett, Ida (1862–1931) |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/womeninworldhist16comm/page/352/mode/2up |chapter-url-access=registration |editor1-last=Commire |editor1-first=Anne |editor1-link=Anne Commire |editor2-last=Klezmer |editor2-first=Deborah |editor3-last=Morgan |editor3-first=Barbara |title=Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia |volume=16: Vict–X |publisher=Yorkin Publications |pages=352–360 |isbn=0-7876-4075-1 |lccn=99-24692 |oclc=593847777 |access-date=November 7, 2020 |via=Internet Archive }} (Also accessible online: [https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/wells-barnett-ida-1862-1931 "Wells-Barnett, Ida"] via encyclopedia.com. Retrieved November 7, 2020.)
• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Douglass, Frederick|1892|p=25}} |last1=Douglass |first1=Frederick |author-link1=Frederick Douglass |date=2002 |chapter=Letter from Frederick Douglass to Ida B. Wells; October 25, 1892 |editor1-last=Gabbidon |editor1-first=Shaun L. |editor1-link=Shaun L. Gabbidon |editor2-last=Greene |editor2-first=Helen Taylor |editor3-last=Young |editor3-first=Vernetta Diane |title=African American Classics in Criminology and Criminal Justice |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zvcwLjy8C1sC&q=There%20has%20been%20no%20word%20equal%20to%20it%20in%20convincing%20power%2C%20I%20have%20spoken%2C%20but%20my%20word%20is%20feeble%20in%20comparison&pg=PA25 |publisher=Sage Publications |page=25 |isbn=978-0-7619-2433-3 |oclc=5559711186 }}
• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Du Bois|1940|p=224}} |last1=Du Bois |first1=William Edward Burghardt |author-link1=W. E. B. Du Bois |date=1970 |orig-date=1940 |title=Dusk of Dawn; An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept |url=https://archive.org/details/duskofdawnessayt00dubo/page/224/mode/2up |url-access=registration |location=New York |publisher=Schocken Books (1970); Harcourt, Brace & Company (1940) |isbn=978-3-8472-0182-3 |lccn=65-14825 |oclc=552187560 |access-date=October 28, 2020 |via=Internet Archive }}{{verify source|date=May 2021|reason=Which version was referenced? 1940 or 1970? The URL points to a 1968 edition. The ISBN is for a different book.}}
• {{cite AV media |ref={{SfnRef|Duster, Alfreda ||p=}} |people=Duster, Alfreda; Terkel, Studs |date=September 3, 1971 |title=Alfreda Wells discusses her mother, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and her book 'Crusade for Justice' |medium=radio transcript |url=https://studsterkel.wfmt.com/programs/alfreda-wells-discusses-her-mother-ida-b-wells-barnett-and-her-book-crusade-justice-0 |format=verbal transcript and sound recording |location=Chicago |publisher=Studs Terkel Radio Archive at WFMT }}
• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Duster, Michelle||p=13}} |last1=Duster |first1=Michelle |year=2010 |title=Ida From Abroad: The Timeless Writings of Ida B. Wells From England in 1894 |type=self-published |location=Chicago |publisher=Benjamin Williams Publishing, LLC (currently South Holland, Illinois: BW Publishing) |isbn=978-0-9802398-9-8 |oclc=608235660}}

• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Elliott||p=242}} |last1=Elliott |first1=Mark Emory |year=2006 |title=Color-Blind Justice: Albion Tourgée and the Quest for Racial Equality from the Civil War to Plessey v. Ferguson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BUq3uhZiG68C |location=New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-537021-8 |lccn=2006011311 }} {{Space|1}}Related articles: Albion Mourgée and Plessey v. Ferguson. OCLC [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263294236/editions all editions.]
• {{cite web |ref={{SfnRef|Enright||p=}} |url=https://blog.bham.ac.uk/legalherstory/2018/03/08/ida-b-wells-and-the-birmingham-connection-anti-lynching-activism-in-the-united-kingdom/#_ftn11 |title=Gender and Legal History in Birmingham and the West Midlands – Ida B. Wells and the Birmingham Connection |last=Enright |first=Mairead |date=March 8, 2018 |type=Enright's blog at the University of Birmingham |access-date=February 14, 2019 |archive-date=February 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190215050449/https://blog.bham.ac.uk/legalherstory/2018/03/08/ida-b-wells-and-the-birmingham-connection-anti-lynching-activism-in-the-united-kingdom/#_ftn11 |url-status=live }}

• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Flexner & Fitzpatrick||p=318}} |last1=Flexner |first1=Eleanor |author-link1=Eleanor Flexner |last2=Fitzpatrick |first2=Ellen Frances |year=2000 |orig-date=1959, 1975, 1996 |title=Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States |url=https://archive.org/details/century_fle_1996_00_7206/page/318/mode/2up |edition=enlarged |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts & London |publisher=Belknap Press of Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-10653-6 |lccn=96-5651 |oclc=634643994 |via=Internet Archive }}
• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Fradin & Fradin||p=21}} |last1=Fradin |first1=Dennis B. |last2=Fradin |first2=Judith Bloom |year=2000 |title=Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |page=21 |isbn=0-395-89898-6 |oclc=64586878 }}
• {{ cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Franklin||p=61}} |last1=Franklin |first1=Vincent P. |year=1995 |title=Living Our Stories, Telling Our Truths: Autobiography and the Making of African American Intellectual Tradition |publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=61–65 |isbn=978-0-689-12192-0 |oclc=31606548 }}

• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Giddings, Sword Among Lions,|2008|p= }} |last1=Giddings |first1=Paula J. |author-link1=Paula Giddings |year=2008 |title=Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OFRGjgtNoZ4C |publisher=Amistad Press |isbn=978-0-06-197294-2 |oclc=865473600 }}
• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Giddings, Encyclopedia|2013|}} |last1=Giddings |first1=Paula J. |author-link1=Paula Giddings |year=2013 |chapter=Wells-Barnett, Ida B. 1862–1931 |pages=265–267 |chapter-url=http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=GVRL&sw=w&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CCX4190600461&it=r&asid=0c2776938f3de1e3600e432f4b772ed0 |editor1-last=Mason |editor1-first=Patrick Leon |title=Encyclopedia of Race and Racism |series=Vol. 4: S–Z |edition=2nd |publisher=MacMillan Reference USA, an imprint of Gale |isbn=978-0-02-866024-0 |access-date=March 8, 2017 }}
• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Giddings, Encyclopedia|2008|}} |last1=Giddings |first1=Paula J. |author-link1=Paula Giddings |year=2008 |chapter=Wells-Barnett, Ida B. 1862–1931 |pages=207–219 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofra0003unse/page/216/mode/2up |editor1-last=Moore |editor1-first=John Hartwell |editor1-link=John Hartwell Moore |title=Encyclopedia of Race and Racism |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofra0003unse |access-date=October 18, 2020 |url-access=registration |series=Vol. 3: S–Z |edition=1st |publisher=MacMillan Reference USA, an imprint of Gale |isbn=978-0-02-866023-3 |lccn=2007024359 |via=Internet Archive }}
• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Goings|p=}} |last1=Goings |first1=Kenneth W. |date=October 7, 2019 |orig-date=October 8, 2017 |chapter=Memphis Free Speech |chapter-url=https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/memphis-free-speech/ |title=Tennessee Encyclopedia |publisher=Tennessee Historical Society |access-date=November 5, 2020 |archive-date=May 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180518060839/https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/memphis-free-speech/ |url-status=live }}
• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Gyimah||p=977}} |last1=Gyimah |first1=Miriam C. |year=2008 |chapter=Wells-Barnett, Ida B |editor1-last=Boyce Davies |editor1-first=Carole |editor1-link=Carole Boyce Davies |title=Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nkVxNVvex-sC&pg=PA976 |chapter-url-access=limited |publisher=ABC-Clio |pages=976–978 |isbn=978-1-85109-700-5 |lccn=2008011880 |access-date=February 14, 2019 }}

• {{cite web |ref={{SfnRef|Honoring Ida B. Wells||p=}} |url=https://www.bpichicago.org/blog/honoring-ida-b-wells-with-chicagos-first-monument-to-an-african-american-woman/ |title=Honoring Ida B. Wells With Chicago's First Monument to an African American Woman |date=October 22, 2015 |website=BPI – Business and Professional People for the Public Interest |location=Chicago |access-date=April 23, 2020 |archive-date=April 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419220550/http://www.bpichicago.org/blog/honoring-ida-b-wells-with-chicagos-first-monument-to-an-african-american-woman/ |url-status=dead }}

• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Johnston & Oliver||p=24}} |date=2020 |editor1-last=Johnston |editor1-first=Hank |editor2-last=Oliver |editor2-first=Pamela Elaine |editor2-link=Pamela E. Oliver |title=Racialized Protest and the State: Resistance and Repression in a Divided America |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZC_sDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT24 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-0-367-26353-9 |lccn=2020008052 |oclc=1159575442 |access-date=November 9, 2020 }}
• {{cite web |url=https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=Wendy+Jones |title=Wendy Jones |last=Jones |first=Wendy D. |website=AALBC.com |publisher=AALBC.com, LLC (African American Literature Book Club) |location=Tampa, Florida |type=autobiography |access-date=November 3, 2020 }} The article is a short autobiography connected to the author's 2017 book, An Extraordinary Life: Josephine E. Jones [née Josephine Ebaugh; 1920–2017] – the author's mother. "I come from a family of storytellers. My mother and my grandmother [Anna Mae Ebaugh, née Nance; 1888–1982] were my first teachers."
• {{cite thesis |ref={{SfnRef|Jordan, Brucella Wiggins ||p=}} |last=Jordan |first=Brucella Wiggins |date=2003 |title=Ida B. Wells, Catherine Impey, and Trans-Atlantic Dimensions of the Nineteenth-Century Anti-Lynching Movement |url=https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2848&context=etd&usg=AOvVaw3Ak9Yen77DdVom9qFldUcD |type=PhD dissertation, history, Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History |location=Morgantown |publisher=West Virginia University |access-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-date=March 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319075457/https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2848&context=etd&usg=AOvVaw3Ak9Yen77DdVom9qFldUcD |url-status=live }}{{space|1}}{{OCLC|52488224|1158307686}}.

• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|"Key Findings"||p=4}} |date=2017 |chapter=Key Findings |title=Lynching in America – Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror |url=https://eji.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/lynching-in-america-3d-ed-080219.pdf |type=eBook |edition=3rd |location=Montgomery, Alabama |publisher=Equal Justice Initiative |oclc=1160165955 |access-date=November 9, 2020 |archive-date=August 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200821183506/https://eji.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/lynching-in-america-3d-ed-080219.pdf |url-status=live }}
  Citing → {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Tolnay & Beck||p=247}} |last1=Tolnay |first1=Stewart Emory |last2=Beck |first2=Elwood Meredith |date=1992 |title=A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882–1930 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bqLD5sbh3EUC |publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=0-252-06413-5 |lccn=94-7396 |oclc=1015166019 |access-date=November 9, 2020 }}
  Quoting → {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Raper||p=}} |last1=Raper |first1=Arthur Franklin |author-link1=Arthur F. Raper |date=1936 |title=The Mob Still Rides: A Review of the Lynching Record, 1931–1935 |location=Atlanta, Georgia |publisher=Commission on Interracial Cooperation |oclc=1130312430 }}
• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|King, Oona||p=}} |last1=King |first1=Oona |author-link1=Oona King |last2=Parris |first2=Matthew |author-link2=Matthew Parris |date=August–October 2014 |title=Baroness Oona King on Ida B Wells |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04dm9d2 |work=BBC Radio 4 |type=audio archive of a radio broadcast |series=Great Lives; Series 34; Episode 3 of 9 |location=Bristol |access-date=May 30, 2020 |archive-date=June 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200613203814/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04dm9d2 |url-status=live }}
• {{cite journal |ref={{SfnRef|Klinger||p=}} |last1=Klinger |first1=Jerry |date=July 15, 2019 |title=Jewish Group Helps Dedicate Ida Wells-Barnett Marker |url=http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2019/07/15/jewish-group-helps-dedicate-ida-wells-barnett-marker/ |access-date=July 17, 2019 |journal=San Diego Jewish World |archive-date=July 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190717133026/http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2019/07/15/jewish-group-helps-dedicate-ida-wells-barnett-marker/ |url-status=live }}

• {{cite journal |ref={{SfnRef|Mann||p=12}} |last1=Mann |first1=Susan A. |date=Summer 2011 |title=Pioneers of U.S. Ecofeminism and Environmental Justice |journal=Feminist Formations |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |location=Baltimore |volume=23 |issue=2 |pages=1–25 |doi=10.1353/ff.2011.0028 |issn=2151-7363 |jstor=41301654 |s2cid=146349456 |oclc=752343699 }}
• {{cite web |ref={{SfnRef|Matthews, Dasha||p=}} |last1=Matthews |first1=Dasha |title=Ida B. Wells: Suffragist, Feminist, and Leader |url=https://info.umkc.edu/womenc/2018/02/21/ida-b-wells-suffragist-feminist-and-leader/ |website=info.umkc.edu – University of Missouri–Kansas City |date=February 21, 2018 |access-date=October 8, 2019 |archive-date=November 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201104082032/https://info.umkc.edu/womenc/2018/02/21/ida-b-wells-suffragist-feminist-and-leader/ |url-status=live }}
• {{cite web |ref={{SfnRef|McBride||p=}} |url=http://faculty.webster.edu/woolflm/idabwells.html |title=Ida B. Wells: Crusade for Justice |last=McBride |first=Jennifer |date=1999 |orig-date=c. 1998 |publisher=Webster University |type=online |access-date=January 30, 2013 |archive-date=June 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230602213202/http://faculty.webster.edu/woolflm/idabwells.html |url-status=live }}
• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|McCluskey||p=8}} |last1=McCluskey |first1=Audrey Thomas |year=2014 |title=A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educations and Activists in the Jim Crow South |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yaiDBQAAQBAJ |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-4422-1138-4 |oclc=883647209 |access-date=October 28, 2020 }}
• {{cite journal |ref={{SfnRef|McKinney||p=}} |last1=McKinney |first1=Megan |date=August 19, 2018 |title=Ida B. Wells: The 'Drive' in Her Name – A Long Wait for a Distinguished Lady |url=https://www.classicchicagomagazine.com/ida-b-wells-the-drive-in-her-name/ |access-date=October 26, 2020 |format=online |department=Vintage |journal=Chicago Classic Magazine |archive-date=October 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030130909/https://www.classicchicagomagazine.com/ida-b-wells-the-drive-in-her-name/ |url-status=live }}
• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|McMurry|p=}} |last1=McMurry |first1=Linda O. |year=1998 |title=To Keep the Waters Troubled: The Life of Ida B. Wells |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CNbnCwAAQBAJ |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-513927-3 |access-date=November 25, 2018 }}
• {{cite web |ref={{SfnRef|Mississippi Writers Trail||p=}} |url=https://arts.ms.gov/writers-trail/ |title=Historical Marker: Ida B. Wells |last=Mississippi Writers Trail |date=November 7, 2019 |publisher=Mississippi Arts Commission |location=Jackson |access-date=June 16, 2020 |archive-date=August 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801222222/https://arts.ms.gov/writers-trail/ |url-status=live }}
• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Mitchell||p=D13 }} |last1=Mitchell |first1=Judylynn |date=November 11, 1979 |title=Daughter of Slave Fights for Racial Justice |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/284444286/ |work=The Daily Times |volume=56 |issue=343 |location=Salisbury, Maryland |page=D13 |access-date=October 26, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com |url-access=subscription |archive-date=October 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030052708/https://www.newspapers.com/image/284444286/ |url-status=live }}
• {{cite journal |ref={{SfnRef|Myrick-Harris||p=}} |last1=Myrick-Harris |first1=Clarissa |date=July 2002 |orig-date=online version: June 30, 2002 |title=Against All Odds |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/against-all-odds-65322127/ |access-date=November 12, 2020 |journal=Smithsonian |volume=33 |issue=4 |pages=70–77 |archive-date=November 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112194623/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/against-all-odds-65322127/ |url-status=live }}{{space|1}}{{ISSN|0037-7333}}. {{OCLC|718515121|show=all}}. {{OCLC|96987499|show=all}}.

• {{cite web |ref={{SfnRef|NABJ||p=}} |url=https://www.nabj.org/page/IdaBWells |title=NABJ: Ida B. Wells Award |website=www.nabj.org |publisher=National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) |access-date=February 22, 2017 |archive-date=July 31, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180731183302/https://www.nabj.org/page/IdaBWells |url-status=live }}
• {{cite web |ref={{SfnRef|National Afro-American Council||p=}} |url=https://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/2229 |title=National Afro-American Council |website=NKAA – Notable Kentucky African Americans Database |publisher=University of Kentucky Libraries |agency=Special Collections |location=Lexington |type=encyclopedic entry |oclc=54673947 |access-date=November 2, 2020 }}
• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|National Association of Colored Women's Clubs||p=}} |date=August 4, 2017 |chapter=National Association of Colored Women's Clubs |chapter-url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/National-Association-of-Colored-Womens-Clubs/ |title=Encyclopædia Britannica |work=Encyclopedia Britannica |type=online |access-date=April 23, 2020 }}
• {{cite web |ref={{SfnRef|National Women's Hall of Fame||p=}} |url=https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/ida-b-wellsbarnett/ |title=Ida B. Wells-Barnett |last=National Women's Hall of Fame |date=November 15, 1988 |location=Seneca Falls, New York |access-date=November 22, 2018 }} (Selected in 1986, posthumously inducted in a ceremony at the Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum in Rochester on November 15, 1988.)
• {{cite web |ref={{SfnRef|Nettles, Arionne Alyssa||p=}} |url=https://www.npr.org/local/309/2019/11/04/775915510/ |title=Ida B. Wells' Lasting Impact on Chicago Politics and Power |last=Nettles |first=Arionne Alyssa |date=November 4, 2019 |website=WBEZ Chicago |agency=NPR affiliate |type=local production |access-date=November 15, 2020 }}
• {{cite web |ref={{SfnRef|New York County Lawyers Association||p=}} |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajgutyh4vK0 |title=18th Annual Ida B. Wells Barnett Award Reception |last=New York County Lawyers' Association |date=February 25, 2020 |access-date=November 3, 2020 |via=YouTube }}
• {{cite web |ref={{SfnRef|Northwestern University||p=}} |url=http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/about-us/awards/ida-b-wells-award.html |title=Ida B. Wells Award |website=Northwestern University |access-date=February 22, 2017 |archive-date=July 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190702224454/https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/about-us/awards/ida-b-wells-award.html }}

• {{cite web |ref={{SfnRef|"Our Creation Story"||p=}} |url=https://idabwellssociety.org/about/our-creation-story/ |title=Our Creation Story |publisher=Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media |location=Chapel Hill |access-date=February 16, 2018 |via=idabwellssociety.org }}

• {{cite journal |ref={{SfnRef|Paisana ||p=197}} |last1=Paisana |first1=Joanne |title=Playing the transatlantic card: the British anti-lynching campaigns of Ida B. Wells |journal=Diacrítica |volume=30 |issue=2 |date=2016 |pages=187–203 |hdl=1822/46204 |hdl-access=free |s2cid=164398439 }}
• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Palmer||pp=106–107}} |last1=Palmer |first1=Stephanie C. |date=2009 |chapter=Wells-Barnett, Ida B |editor1-last=Finkelman |editor1-first=Paul |editor1-link=Paul Finkelman |title=Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-First Century |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6gbQHxb_P0QC&q=%22wells-Barnett&pg=PA107 |volume=5 |publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=107–108 |doi=10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.46339 |isbn=978-0-19-516779-5 |lccn=2008034263 |oclc=828073382 }}
• {{cite magazine |ref={{SfnRef|Pavithra ||p=}} |last1=Pavithra |first1=Mohan |date=August 8, 2018 |title=How These Women Raised $42k in a Day for an Ida B. Wells Monument |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/90211495/ |access-date=January 14, 2019 |magazine=Fast Company |type=Blog }}
• {{cite journal |ref={{SfnRef|Peavey & Smith||pp=46–49 }} |last1=Peavey |first1=Linda |last2=Smith |first2=Ursula |title=A Determined Quest for Equality – How Ida B. Wells Battled Jim Crow in Memphis |url=https://memphismagazine.com/api/content/4b9f26ee-5416-11e9-b920-12f1225286c6/ |access-date=October 25, 2020 |journal=Memphis |type=monthly magazine |publisher=Contemporary Media |date=April 2019 |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=46–49 }} [https://issuu.com/contemporarymedia/docs/memphis_april_2019/48 Alternate link] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319075457/https://issuu.com/contemporarymedia/docs/memphis_april_2019/48 |date=March 19, 2022 }} via ISSUU (a version of this story was published in the June 1983 issue of Memphis).
• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Perkins & Stephens||p=}} |date=1998 |editor1-last=Perkins |editor1-first=Kathy A. |editor2-last=Stephens |editor2-first=Judith Louise (Judith Stephens-Lorenz) |title=Strange Fruit: Plays on Lynching by American Women |url=https://archive.org/details/strangefruitplay0000unse/page/366/mode/2up?q=katz |url-access=registration |location=Bloomington & Indianapolis |publisher=Indiana University Press |pages=366–408 |isbn=0-253-33356-3 |lccn=97-29605 |oclc=751143552 |access-date=November 6, 2020 |via=Internet Archive }} {{space|1}}([https://books.google.com/books?id=G1il9uQG3A8C link] via Google Books; Perkins, among other things, was, in 2007, inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre ([http://kathyaperkins.com/ see CV] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113072200/http://kathyaperkins.com/ |date=November 13, 2020 }}); Stephens retired as Professor of Humanities and Theatre at Penn State Schuylkill, where she had been an educator since 1977)

1. "Michon Boston" (1962–{{space|2}}), pp. 366–367
2. Iola's Letter (1994), pp. 368–408

• {{cite journal |last1=Pinar |first1=William Frederick |author-link1=William Pinar |date=January 2001 |title=8 – White Women and the Campaign Against Lynching: Frances Willard, Jane Addams, Jesse Daniel Ames |journal=Counterpoints |location=Frankfurt am Main |publisher=Peter Lang |series=Vol. 163 – The Gender of Racial Politics and Violence in America: Lynching, Prison Rape, & the Crisis of Masculinity |volume=163 |pages=487–554 |issn=1058-1634 |jstor=42977758 |oclc=5792541764}} (Pinar offers a description of the accusations made between Willard and Wells in England in 1894.)
• {{cite book |last1=Pinar |first1=William Frederick |author-link1=William Pinar |year=2009 |title=The Worldliness of a Cosmopolitan Education: Passionate Lives in Public Service |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-84485-1 |lccn=2008046092 |oclc=846131889 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KGGRAgAAQBAJ }}
• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Portrait||p=}} |url=https://iop.harvard.edu/forum/celebration-ida-b-wells |title=A Celebration of Ida B. Wells |last=Portrait of Ida B. Wells |newspaper=The Institute of Politics at Harvard University |date=April 6, 2006 |department=(i) Institute of Politics & (ii) Women and Public Policy Program (co-sponsors) |publisher=Harvard Kennedy School Forum |agency=John F. Kennedy, Jr., Forum |location=Cambridge |type=archived video of a forum; 1:08:15 |access-date=February 22, 2017 |archive-date=February 23, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170223211912/http://iop.harvard.edu/forum/celebration-ida-b-wells |url-status=live }} (the video relates to the unveiling of several new portraits installed at the Kennedy School, including a poster reproduction of a painting of Ida B. Wells – painted by Patricia Watwood – commissioned by the school for $20,000 and installed April 2006 in the Fainsod Room of the Littauer Building, next Winston Churchill's portrait)
• {{cite journal |ref={{SfnRef|Portwood||pp=}} |last1=Portwood |first1=Shirley J. |title=Review of The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World's Columbian Exposition: The Afro-American Contribution to Columbian Literature |journal=Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society |date=2000 |volume=93 |issue=4 |pages=457–459 |jstor=40193465 }} {{space|1}}Review of the 1893 work, [https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/wells/exposition/exposition.html The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World's Columbian Exposition: The Afro-American Contribution to Columbian Literature] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020115819/https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/wells/exposition/exposition.html |date=October 20, 2020 }}, by Ida B. Wells, Frederick Douglass, Irvine Garland Penn, and Ferdinand Barnett. Re-published 1999. Robert W. Rydell (ed.); Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press
• {{Cite web |ref={{SfnRef|Pulitzer|2020|}} |website=The Pulitzer Prize |title=Announcement of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winners – Special Citation: Ida B. Wells |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/news/announcement-2020-pulitzer-prize-winners |date=May 4, 2020 |access-date=May 5, 2020 |quote=For her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching. |archive-date=May 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200504195338/https://www.pulitzer.org/news/announcement-2020-pulitzer-prize-winners |url-status=live }}

• {{cite web |ref={{SfnRef|Quakers||p=}} |url=http://www.quakersintheworld.org/quakers-in-action/362/Quakers-against-racism-Catherine-Impey-and-the-Anti-Caste-Journal |title=Quakers Against Racism: Catherine Impey and the Anti-Caste Journal |publisher=Quakers of the World |access-date=November 11, 2018 |oclc=607352452 |archive-date=November 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181115234300/http://www.quakersintheworld.org/quakers-in-action/362/Quakers-against-racism-Catherine-Impey-and-the-Anti-Caste-Journal |url-status=live }}.

• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Ritchie||p=165}} |last1=Ritchie |first1=Donald A. |author-link1=Donald A. Ritchie |date=2007 |orig-date=1997 |chapter=Part 3. Society's Critics (1900–1945)" {{nowrap| ... }} "Ida B. Wells-Barnett |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/americanjournali0000ritc/page/164/mode/2up |title=American Journalists – Getting the Story |url=https://archive.org/details/americanjournali0000ritc/page/164/mode/2up |url-access=registration |publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=164–166 |isbn=978-0-19-532837-0 |lccn=96-29208 |oclc=1099791041 |access-date=October 26, 2020 |via=Internet Archive }}
• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Rooney & Lemerand||p=650}} |date=1998 |chapter=Ida B. Wells-Barnett |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780787622152/page/644/mode/2up |chapter-url-access=registration |editor1-last=Rooney |editor1-first=Terrie M. |editor2-last=Lemerand |editor2-first=Karen E. |title=Contemporary Heroes and Heroines |volume=3 |publisher=Gale Research |pages=644–651 |isbn=978-0-7876-2215-2 |oclc=38956591 |access-date=November 9, 2020 |via=Internet Archive }} (Also accessible online: [https://www.cbn.com/special/blackhistory/bio_idabwells.aspx "Ida B. Wells-Barnett"] via the Christian Broadcasting Network. Retrieved November 7, 2020.)

• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Schechter||p=}} |last1=Schechter |first1=Patricia |title=Ida B. Wells–Barnett and American Reform: 1880–1930 |date=January 14, 2003 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6LTqCQAAQBAJ |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |location=Chapel Hill |isbn=978-0-8078-7546-9 |access-date=October 26, 2020 }}
• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Seymour||pp=333}} |last1=Seymour |first1=James B. Jr. |date=2006 |chapter=Wells-Barnett, Ida B |editor1-last=Finkelman |editor1-first=Paul |editor1-link=Paul Finkelman |title=Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-First Century |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cCMbE4KKlX4C&q=ida+wells&pg=RA2-PA333 |volume=3 |publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=333–334 |doi=10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.46339 |isbn=978-0-19-516777-1 |lccn=2005033701 |oclc=607234039 }}
• {{cite thesis |ref={{SfnRef|Sheriff||p=63 (footnote 46) }} |type=PhD, Department of English |last=Sheriff |first=Stacey Ellen |date=December 2009 |title=Rhetoric and Revision: Women's Arguments for Social Justice in the Progressive Era |url=https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/files/final_submissions/5580 |publisher=Pennsylvania State University |oclc=783231213 |access-date=October 26, 2020 |archive-date=October 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030004905/https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/files/final_submissions/5580 |url-status=live }}
• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Stansell||p=127}} |last1=Stansell |first1=Christine |author-link1=Christine Stansell |date=2010 |title=The Feminist Promise – 1792 to the Present |url=https://archive.org/details/feministpromise10000stan/page/126/mode/2up |url-access=registration |location=New York |publisher=The Modern Library |pages=126–128 |isbn=978-0-8129-7202-3 |lccn=2009026662 |oclc=770464849 |access-date=February 16, 2017 |via=Internet Archive }}
• {{cite journal |ref={{SfnRef|Stetz||p=}} |last1=Stetz |first1=Margaret Diane |date=Spring 2018 |title=Re-Embodying Ida B. Wells: A Figure of Resistance in American Popular Culture |url=https://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/articles/spring_2018/stetz.htm |access-date=November 3, 2020 |journal=Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture, 1900 to Present |type=online |location=Hollywood |volume=17 |issue=1 |issn=1553-8931 |archive-date=July 14, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200714023324/https://americanpopularculture.com/journal/articles/spring_2018/stetz.htm |url-status=live }}
• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Stillion Southard||p=85}} |last1=Stillion Southard |first1=Belinda A. |year=2011 |title=Militant Citizenship: Rhetorical Strategies of the National Woman's Party, 1913–1920 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-FUYTHpK4LMC&pg=PA85 |publisher=Texas A&M University Press |isbn=978-1-60344-281-7 |lccn=2011005218 |oclc=892519712 }}

• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Thompson||p=}} |last1=Thompson |first1=Mildred Isabelle |date=1990 |title=Ida B. Wells-Barnett: An Exploratory Study of an American Black Woman, 1893–1930 |url=https://archive.org/details/idabwellsbarnett0015thom/page/n9/mode/2up |url-access=registration |series=Black Women in United States History |volume=15 |location=Brooklyn |publisher=Carlton Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-926019-21-8 |lccn=90-1399 |oclc=21035436 |access-date=November 9, 2020 |via=Internet Archive }}{{space|1|}}(this book, Vol. 15 of a 16-vol. set, is an adaptation of Thompson's 1979 PhD dissertation at George Washington University; {{OCLC|78529680}}).
• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Tichi||p=340 (note 16)}} |last1=Tichi |first1=Celelia |year=2011 |chapter=Chapter 7 |title=Civic Passions: Seven Who Launched Progressive America |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/civicpassionssev0000tich/page/340/mode/2up |chapter-url-access=registration |type=end notes |location=Chapel Hill |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |isbn=978-0-8078-7191-1 |lccn=2009011634 |oclc=1055332079 |access-date=October 28, 2020 |via=Internet Archive }} ([https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-4875 webcast] via Library of Congress).
• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Truth-Telling||p=}} |title=Truth-Telling: Frances Willard and Ida B. Wells |url=https://scalar.usc.edu/works/willard-and-wells/introduction.9 |contribution=Introduction |edition=version 9 |location=Evanston, Illinois |publisher=Frances Willard House Museum and Archives |access-date=October 24, 2020 |archive-date=March 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319075457/https://scalar.usc.edu/works/willard-and-wells/introduction.9 |url-status=live }}
• {{cite web |ref={{SfnRef|Type Investigations ||p=}} |url=https://www.typeinvestigations.org/project/2018/06/17/ida-b-wells-fellowship/ |title=Ida B. Wells Fellowship |last=Type Investigations Fellowship |website=www.typeinvestigations.org |publisher=Type Investigations, formerly The Investigative Fund, the investigateive newsroom of the Type Media Center |location=New York |access-date=November 29, 2018 |archive-date=July 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712192406/https://www.typeinvestigations.org/project/2018/06/17/ida-b-wells-fellowship/ |url-status=live }}

• {{cite web |ref={{SfnRef|University of Louisville ||p=}} |url=https://louisville.edu/justice/Student-Information/ida-b.-wells-award/ |title=Ida B. Wells Award |website=University of Louisville |access-date=February 22, 2017 |archive-date=February 23, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170223125844/https://louisville.edu/justice/Student-Information/ida-b.-wells-award |url-status=live }}
• {{cite web |ref={{SfnRef|University of Memphis||p=}} |url=https://www.memphis.edu/philosophy/news-events/ida-b-wells/ida-b-wells.php |title=Ida B. Wells Conference |website=University of Memphis |access-date=May 4, 2020 |archive-date=August 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801180133/https://www.memphis.edu/philosophy/news-events/ida-b-wells/ida-b-wells.php |url-status=live }}
• {{cite web |ref={{SfnRef|USPS: Women stamps||p=3}} |url=https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/women-stamp-subjects.pdf |title=Women Subjects on United States Postage Stamps |last=USPS: Women stamps |date=May 2020 |orig-date=2015 |editor-last=USPS Historian |department=Postal History |series=Black Heritage |publisher=United States Postal Service |pages=1–8 |access-date=November 3, 2020 |archive-date=March 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210321142824/https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/women-stamp-subjects.pdf }}
• {{cite web |ref={{SfnRef|USPS: African American stamps||p=2}} |url=https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/african-american-stamp-subjects.pdf |title=African American Subjects on United States Postage Stamps |last=USPS: African American stamps |date=May 2020 |orig-date=August 2013 |editor-last=USPS Historian |department=Postal History |publisher=United States Postal Service |pages=1–6 |access-date=November 3, 2020 |archive-date=January 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129215345/https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/african-american-stamp-subjects.pdf |url-status=live }}

• {{cite magazine |ref={{SfnRef|Viagas||p=}} |last1=Viagas |first1=Robert |date=December 1, 1995 |title=AuDelCo Award Winners |url=https://playbill.com/news/article/audelco-award-winners-328761 |access-date=January 31, 2018 |magazine=Playbill |type=online |archive-date=January 31, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180131140850/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/audelco-award-winners-328761 |url-status=dead }} See: AUDELCO.

• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Wagner||p=}} |url=http://scalar.usc.edu/works/willard-and-wells/introduction |title=Truth-Telling: Frances Willard and Ida B. Wells, Introduction |date=March 14, 2019 |editor-last=Wagner |editor-first=Ella |display-editors=etal |website=Frances Willard House Museum and Archives |location=Evanston, Illinois |access-date=March 18, 2019 |archive-date=April 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412035357/http://scalar.usc.edu/works/willard-and-wells/introduction |url-status=live }}
• {{cite web |ref={{SfnRef|Wells-Barnett Museum (home page) ||p= }} |url=http://idabwellsmuseum.org/ |title=Wells-Barnett Museum (Ida B.) |location=Holly Springs, Mississippi |publisher=The Ida B. Wells Memorial Foundation |access-date=February 17, 2017 |archive-date=February 17, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170217143556/http://idabwellsmuseum.org/ |url-status=live }}
• {{cite web |ref={{SfnRef|Wells-Barnett Museum ||p=}} |url=https://ibwfoundation.org/wells-barnett-museum/ |title=Wells-Barnett Museum (Ida B.) |location=Holly Springs, Mississippi |publisher=The Ida B. Wells Memorial Foundation |access-date=February 22, 2017 |archive-date=June 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605035913/https://ibwfoundation.org/wells-barnett-museum |url-status=live }}
• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Wells–Duster, |1970|p=}} |last1=Wells |first1=Ida Bell |author-link1=Ida B. Wells |year=1970 |editor1-last=Duster |editor1-first=Alfreda |editor1-link=Alfreda Duster |title=Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells |url=https://archive.org/details/crusadeforjustic00well |url-access=registration |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=0-226-89344-8 |lccn=73108837 |oclc=8162296586 |access-date=September 8, 2019 |via=Internet Archive }}
• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Wells, Red Record||p=}} |last1=Wells |first1=Ida B. |date=1894 |orig-date=1892–1893 |title=The Red Record – Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings in the United States, 1892 – 1893 – 1894 |url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/mfd.40021/?st=grid/ |location=Chicago |publisher=Donohue & Henneberry |access-date=November 23, 2020 |via=Frederick Douglass Papers, Library of Congress, Manuscript Division }}{{space|1}}{{OCLC|26846545|show=all}}. Library of Congress, Manuscript/Mixed Material – {{URL|https://www.loc.gov/item/mfd.40021}}. Also transcribed by Project Gutenberg → {{URL|https://www.gutenberg.org/files/14977/14977-h/14977-h.htm|e-book No. 17977}} (released February 8, 2005).
• {{cite web |ref={{SfnRef|Wells Papers, Univ. Chicago||p=}} |url=https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.IBWELLS |title=Wells, Ida B., Papers, 1884–1976 |year=1978 |publisher=Joseph Regenstein Library, University of Chicago |agency=Special Collections |oclc=19496699 |access-date=March 21, 2015 |archive-date=May 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230530072711/https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.IBWELLS |url-status=live }}
• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Wells, Douglass, Penn, Barnett, |1893|p=}} |last1=Wells |first1=Ida B. |last2=Douglass |first2=Frederick |author-link2=Frederick Douglass |last3=Penn |first3=Garland I. |author-link3=Irvine Garland Penn |last4=Bernett |first4=Ferdinand Lee |author-link4=Ferdinand Lee Barnett (Chicago) |date=1893 |editor1-last=Wells |editor1-first=Ida B. |title=The Reason Why: The Colored American Is Not in the World's Columbian Exposition |url=https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/wells/exposition/exposition.html |location=Chicago |publisher=Miss Ida B. Wells, 128 S. Clark Street |oclc=702372532 |access-date=October 26, 2020 |via=University of Pennsylvania Libraries |archive-date=October 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020115819/https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/wells/exposition/exposition.html |url-status=live }} {{space|1}}{{nowrap|LCCN {{URL|https://www.loc.gov/item/mfd.25023/|mfd.25023}}}}
• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Wells, Southern Horrors|1892|p=}} |last1=Wells |first1=Ida B. |year=1892 |title=Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases |url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/868f8db7-fa74-d451-e040-e00a180630a7/book#page/5/mode/2up |location=New York |publisher=New York Age Print |via=Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, New York Public Library |access-date=August 21, 2020 |archive-date=January 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210108083834/https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/868f8db7-fa74-d451-e040-e00a180630a7/book#page/5/mode/2up }}
• {{cite web |url=http://wikimapia.org/91552/Ida-B-Wells-Homes |title=Ida B. Wells Homes Chicago, Illinois |last=Wikimapia |website=wikimapia.org |access-date=May 12, 2012 |archive-date=January 11, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111150908/http://wikimapia.org/91552/Ida-B-Wells-Homes |url-status=live }}
• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Willard||p=}} |last1=Willard |first1=Frances |author-link1=Frances Willard |date=October 23, 1890 |title=The Race Problem – Miss Willard on the Political Puzzle of the South |url=https://willardandwells.omeka.net/items/show/33 |work=New York Voice |type=weekly pro-prohibition newspaper |volume=7 |location=New York, Astor Place |publisher=Funk & Wagnalls Company |oclc=32278752 |via=Frances Willard House Museum and Archives, Chicago }}{{Dead link|date=August 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (the article is an interview with Willard by the New York Voice when she was in Atlanta in October 1890 for WCTU's annual convention, wherein she stated: "The grog shop is its center of power. The safety of woman, of childhood, of the home is menaced in a thousand localities at this moment, so that men dare not go beyond the sight of their own roof tree.") {{Dead link|date=January 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

• {{cite journal |ref={{SfnRef|Yaeger, October 21, 2015|p=}} |last1=Yaeger |first1=Lynn |author-link1=Lynn Yaeger |date=October 21, 2015 |title=The African-American Suffragists History Forgot |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/african-american-suffragists-women-voting-rights |access-date=May 5, 2018 |journal=Vogue |type=online |archive-date=March 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180330220444/https://www.vogue.com/article/african-american-suffragists-women-voting-rights |url-status=live }}

• {{cite journal |ref={{SfnRef|Zackodnik||p=264}} |last1=Zackodnik |first1=Teresa |title=Ida B. Wells and 'American Atrocities' in Britain |journal=Women's Studies International Forum |date=July 2005 |volume=28 |issue=4 |pages=259–273 |doi=10.1016/j.wsif.2005.04.012 }}

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• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|"A Bright Woman"||p=7 }} |date=June 11, 1895 |title=A Bright Woman |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/558910586/ |work=St. Joseph Daily News |volume=17 |issue=9 |location=St. Joseph, Missouri |page=7 |oclc=13745156 |access-date=October 26, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com |url-access=subscription }} (also LCCN {{URL|https://www.loc.gov/item/sn86063691|sn86063691}})

• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Bonfiglio||p=C2}} |last1=Bonfiglio |first1=Jeremy Dean |date=February 19, 2012 |title=Great Grandson of Influential Civil Rights Pioneer Ida B. Wells Keeps Her Legacy Alive |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/442357731 |work=The Herald-Palladium |volume=127 |issue=50 |location=St. Joseph, Michigan |pages=1–2 (section C) |isbn=978-3-8472-0182-3 |oclc=669922511 |access-date=October 26, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com |url-access=subscription |archive-date=November 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101102530/http://www.newspapers.com/image/442357731/ |url-status=live }}
• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Brown, DeNeen L.||p=}} |last1=Brown |first1=DeNeed L. |date=April 26, 2018 |title=Ida B. Wells: Lynching Museum, Memorial Honors Woman Who Fought Lynching |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/04/26/fearless-ida-b-wells-honored-by-new-lynching-memorial-for-fighting-racial-terror/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |type="Retropolis" – a history blog; online |access-date=April 27, 2018 |archive-date=April 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180427173439/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/04/26/fearless-ida-b-wells-honored-by-new-lynching-memorial-for-fighting-racial-terror/ |url-status=live }}
• {{cite web |ref={{SfnRef|Burgess||p=}} |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/10/26/ida-b-wells-statue-could-installed-memphis-tennessee-2021/6039401002/ |title=Ida B. Wells was driven out of Memphis in 1892. She might soon have her own statue there |last=Burgess |first=Katherine |date=October 26, 2020 |website=USA Today |access-date=November 4, 2020 |quote=One of the loudest voices speaking out against Wells in Memphis was Edward Ward Carmack, editor of the Memphis Commercial, the predecessor of The Commercial Appeal. He demanded that White citizens retaliate against 'the Black wench' for her writings against the lynchings. }}
• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Burleigh||p=2; section 6}} |last1=Burleigh |first1=Nina |author-link1=Nina Burleigh |date=August 21, 1988 |title=Hall of Fame Will Induct 10 |url=https://chicagotribune.newspapers.com/image/388477055/ |work=Chicago Tribune |volume=142 |issue=234 |page=2, section 6 |issn=1085-6706 |access-date=June 30, 2019 |via=Newspapers.com |url-access=subscription |archive-date=November 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201105140401/https://chicagotribune.newspapers.com/image/388477055/ |url-status=live }}

• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Cavna||p=}} |last1=Cavna |first1=Michael |author-link1=Michael Cavna |date=July 16, 2015 |title=Here's Why Google Doodle Salutes Fearless, Peerless Word-Warrior Ida B. Wells |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/07/16/heres-why-google-doodle-salutes-fearless-peerless-word-warrior-ida-b-wells/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |type=online |access-date=January 14, 2019 |archive-date=January 14, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190114153343/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/07/16/heres-why-google-doodle-salutes-fearless-peerless-word-warrior-ida-b-wells/ |url-status=live }}
• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Chase||p=3}} |date=October 22, 1892 |title=Miss Ida B. Wells – A Lecture |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84025891/1892-10-22/ed-1/seq-3/ |editor1-last=Chase |editor1-first=William Calvin |editor1-link=William Calvin Chase |department=(3-column, tombstone-style advertisement) |work=The Washington Bee |type=weekly newspaper, Saturdays |volume=11 |issue=19 |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=Bee Publishing |page=3 |issn=1940-7424 |lccn=sn84025891 |oclc=10587828 |access-date=November 10, 2020 |via=Chronicling America |archive-date=November 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211124214244/https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84025891/1892-10-22/ed-1/seq-3/ |url-status=live }}
• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Collins, Sam P. K.||p=24}} |last1=Collins |first1=Sam P. K. |date=April 4–10, 2019 |title=D.C.'s Newest Middle School Named After Ida B. Wells |url=https://image.isu.pub/190404110500-f573747c6cd07a6e280f97912b6fa12c/jpg/page_24.jpg |department=Education |work=The Washington Informer |volume=54 |issue=25 |issn=0741-9414 |via=ISSUU }} [https://issuu.com/wi3117/docs/the_washington_informer_-_april_4_2 Digitized print edition.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319075458/https://issuu.com/wi3117/docs/the_washington_informer_-_april_4_2 |date=March 19, 2022 }} The online edition, [https://washingtoninformer.com/new-d-c-middle-school-to-be-renamed-for-ida-b-wells/ here], is dated March 26, 2019.

• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Dickerson||p=}} |last1=Dickerson |first1=Caitlin |author-link1=Caitlin Dickerson |date=March 9, 2018 |orig-date=March 8, 2018 |title=Ida B. Wells, Who Took on Racism in the Deep South With Powerful Reporting on Lynchings |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/obituaries/overlooked-ida-b-wells.html |url-access=subscription |format=online |editor1-last=Padnani |editor1-first=Amisha (Amy) |editor1-link=Amy Padnani |editor2-last=Bennett |editor2-first=Jessica |department=Women We Overlooked in 167 Years of New York Times Obituaries |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |access-date=April 22, 2018 |archive-date=July 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190718002526/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/obituaries/overlooked-ida-b-wells.html |url-status=live }}

• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Gates, Anita||p=}} |last1=Gates |first1=Anita |date=July 23, 2006 |title=Theater Review; A Pageant Based on History, With Songs That Yearn |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/nyregion/theater/theater-review-a-pageant-based-on-history-with-songs-that.html |work=The New York Times |edition=National |page=14, section CN |url-access=subscription |access-date=June 22, 2010 |archive-date=November 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201103114458/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/nyregion/theater/theater-review-a-pageant-based-on-history-with-songs-that.html |url-status=live }}
• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Greene||p=}} |last1=Greene |first1=Morgan |date=May 4, 2020 |title=Ida B. Wells Receives Pulitzer Prize Citation: 'The Only Thing She Really Had Was the Truth' |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-ida-wells-pulitzer-citation-20200505-rlt4ujeeenf7vi5z6qt7e4pmha-story.html |work=Chicago Tribune |type=online |issn=1085-6706 |access-date=May 5, 2020 |archive-date=May 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200505071311/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-ida-wells-pulitzer-citation-20200505-rlt4ujeeenf7vi5z6qt7e4pmha-story.html |url-status=live }}
• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Grossman||p=}} |last1=Grossman |first1=Ron |date=June 23, 2013 |title=Illinois Women Win the Right to Vote |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-per-flash-women-voter-0623-new-20130623-story.html |work=Chicago Tribune |type=online |issn=1085-6706 |access-date=November 17, 2018 |archive-date=August 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210803153902/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-per-flash-women-voter-0623-new-20130623-story.html |url-status=live }}

• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Heather-Lea||pp=4 & 7 (section A)}} |last1=Heather-Lea |first1=Patricia |date=March 30, 2017 |title=Letter to the Editor: Ida Wells an inspiring heroine for International Women's Day |url=https://addisonindependent.com/letter-editor-ida-wells-inspiring-heroine-international-womens-day/ |location=Middlebury, Vermont |work=Addison County Independent |volume=71 |issue=13 |access-date=October 26, 2020 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=November 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201104023730/https://addisonindependent.com/letter-editor-ida-wells-inspiring-heroine-international-womens-day }}
• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Hentoff March 28, 1994}} |last1=Hentoff |first1=Nat |author-link1=Nat Hentoff |date=March 28, 1994 |title=One Teacher's Struggle to Overcome Bigotry |work=Pasadena Star-News |page=A10 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/629230454/ |url-access=subscription |access-date=November 6, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=March 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319075500/https://www.newspapers.com/image/629230454/ |url-status=live }}
• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|"Horrible but True", January 16,|1892|p=1}} |date=January 16, 1892 |title=Horrible but True |url=http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/html/pageb234-2.html?ID=17347 |work=Cleveland Gazette |volume=9 |issue=23 |page=1 |via=Ohio Historical Society }}{{Dead link|date=January 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|I Am Birmingham||}} |date=February 14, 2012 |title=Birmingham Blue Plaque Unveiled to Commemorate Civil Rights Activist Ida B. Wells |url=https://www.iambirmingham.co.uk/2019/02/14/birmingham-blue-plaque-unveiled-commemorate-civil-rights-activist-ida-b-wells/ |work=I Am Birmingham |type=digital-only news |location=Birmingham, England |publisher=Adam Yosef |access-date=November 4, 2020 |archive-date=August 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200818023653/https://www.iambirmingham.co.uk/2019/02/14/birmingham-blue-plaque-unveiled-commemorate-civil-rights-activist-ida-b-wells/ |url-status=live }}

• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Jalabi||p=}} |last1=Jalabi |first1=Raya |date=July 16, 2015 |title=Ida B Wells, African American Activist, Honored by Google |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/16/google-doodle-ida-b-wells-african-american-activist-editor |work=The Guardian |type=online |location=London |access-date=January 14, 2019 }}

• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Linton & Dickerson}} |last1=Linton |first1=Caroline |last2=Dickerson |first2=Caitlin |author-link2=Caitlin Dickerson |date=March 8, 2018 |title='We Want to Address These Inequities of Our Time': NYT Starts New Series Featuring Overlooked Obituaries |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-york-times-overlooked-obituaries-ida-b-wells-caitlin-dickerson/ |work=CBS News |type=online video & text |access-date=March 31, 2019 |archive-date=March 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331105940/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-york-times-overlooked-obituaries-ida-b-wells-caitlin-dickerson/ |url-status=live }}

• {{Cite news |ref={{SfnRef|"Miss Wells", June 13,|1895|p=}} |title=Miss Ida B. Wells About to Marry. |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/196565212.html?dids=196565212:196565212&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:FT&date=JUN+13%2C+1895&author=&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=Miss+Ida+B.+Wells+About+to+Marry.&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111190756/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/196565212.html?dids=196565212:196565212&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:FT&date=JUN+13%2C+1895&author=&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=Miss+Ida+B.+Wells+About+to+Marry.&pqatl=google |archive-date=January 11, 2012 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=June 13, 1895 |issn=2641-0702 |lccn=sn82014727 |oclc=8787120 |access-date=May 9, 2008 }}

• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Pratt & Byrne||p=}} |last1=Pratt |first1=Gregory |last2=Byrne |first2=John |date=July 25, 2018 |title=Ida B. Wells Gets Her Street—City Council Approves Renaming Congress in Her Honor |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-met-rahm-emanual-ida-b-wells-street-20180725-story.html |work=Chicago Tribune |type=online |issn=1085-6706 |access-date=July 28, 2018 |author3=Lolly Bowean |archive-date=June 9, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190609155932/https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-met-rahm-emanual-ida-b-wells-street-20180725-story.html |url-status=live }}

• {{cite web |ref={{SfnRef|Rogers||p=}} |url=https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/great-granddaughter-of-ida-b-wells-looks-to-erect-memorial/43888/ |title=Great-Granddaughter of Ida B. Wells Looks to Erect Memorial |last=Rogers |first=Phil |date=April 11, 2018 |work=NBC Chicago |access-date=November 3, 2020 |archive-date=January 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122051602/https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/great-granddaughter-of-ida-b-wells-looks-to-erect-memorial/43888/ |url-status=live }}

• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Sama||p=11 (section 14)}} |last1=Sama |first1=Dominic |date=February 4, 1990 |title=Issues Honor Ida B. Wells, Judicial System |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/389312150/ |work=Chicago Tribune |volume=143 |issue=35 |edition=Final |page=11 (section 14) |access-date=November 11, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com }}
• {{Cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Shaw||p=}} |last=Shaw |first=Nichole |date=June 30, 2021 |title=Unveiling of Ida B. Wells Monument in Bronzeville met with 'joy, excitement, appreciation and humbleness' |url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/6/30/22557845/ida-b-wells-monument-second-black-woman-monument-chicago-unveiled-bronzeville |access-date=July 3, 2021 |publisher=Chicago Sun-Times |language=en |archive-date=July 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210704150910/https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/6/30/22557845/ida-b-wells-monument-second-black-woman-monument-chicago-unveiled-bronzeville |url-status=live }}
• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Slevin||p=}} |last1=Slevin |first1=Peter |date=July 10, 2018 |title=History: Movement to Honor Anti-Lynching Crusader and Journalist Ida B. Wells in Chicago Is Gaining Momentum, and Is 'Long Overdue' |url=https://goodblacknews.org/2018/07/10/history-movement-to-honor-anti-lynching-crusader-and-journalist-ida-b-wells-in-chicago-is-gaining-momentum-and-is-long-overdue/ |work=Good Black News |publisher=News aggregator and blog of Facebook |at=({{URL|www.Goodblacknews.org}}) |access-date=July 13, 2018 |archive-date=July 13, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180713180647/https://goodblacknews.org/2018/07/10/history-movement-to-honor-anti-lynching-crusader-and-journalist-ida-b-wells-in-chicago-is-gaining-momentum-and-is-long-overdue/ |url-status=live }} Originally published June 20, 2018, in The Lily of The Washington Post ({{URL|https://www.thelily.com/the-movement-to-honor-ida-b-wells-is-gaining-momentum-and-its-long-overdue/|link}}), which, in turn, was an adaptation of a story in The Washington Post by Peter Slevin published June 15, 2015, titled [https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/you-cant-just-gloss-over-this-history-the-movement-to-honor-ida-b-wells-gains-momentum/2018/06/15/50445bbc-700d-11e8-bd50-b80389a4e569_story.html "{{-'}}You Can't Just Gloss Over This History': The Movement to Honor Ida B. Wells Gains Momentum."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201106213215/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/you-cant-just-gloss-over-this-history-the-movement-to-honor-ida-b-wells-gains-momentum/2018/06/15/50445bbc-700d-11e8-bd50-b80389a4e569_story.html |date=November 6, 2020 }}
• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Smith, David||p=}} |last1=Smith |first1=David |author-link1=David Smith (journalist) |date=November 11, 2018 |title=Ida B Wells: The Unsung Heroine of the Civil Rights Movement |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/27/ida-b-wells-civil-rights-movement-reporter |work=The Guardian |type=online |edition=US |location=London |access-date=November 11, 2018 }}

• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Washington, Linn||p=}} |last1=Washington |first1=Linn |date=February 14, 2019 |title=Ida Wells Barnett Honored in Birmingham, England |url=https://goodblacknews.org/2018/07/10/history-movement-to-honor-anti-lynching-crusader-and-journalist-ida-b-wells-in-chicago-is-gaining-momentum-and-is-long-overdue/ |work=The Chicago Crusader |type=online |access-date=February 17, 2019 |archive-date=March 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331042649/https://goodblacknews.org/2018/07/10/history-movement-to-honor-anti-lynching-crusader-and-journalist-ida-b-wells-in-chicago-is-gaining-momentum-and-is-long-overdue/ |url-status=live }}
• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Wells, Chicago Daily News, |1911|p=}} |last1=Wells |first1=Ida B. |date=1911 |title=The Negro's Quest for Work |work=Chicago Daily News }} {{OCLC|11473657|show=all}}.

1. Reprinted by the New York Call (July 23, 1911). "The Negro's Quest for Work". {{LCCN|sn83030226}}. {{OCLC|9448923 |show=all}}.
2. Transcribed and published by The Black Worker (1900 to 1919). Vol. 5. Foner, Philip Sheldon (1910–1994); Lewis, Ronald L. (eds.). Part I: "Economic Condition of the Black Worker at the Turn of the Twentieth-Century". Temple University Press. pp. 38–39 – {{JSTOR|j.ctvn1tcpp.5}}. {{OCLC|1129353605|show=all}}.

• {{cite web |last1=Wormser |first1=Richard |title=The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow – Jim Crow Stories: Ida B. Wells Forced Out of Memphis (1892) |website=www.thirteen.org |publisher=WNET |url=https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_wells.html |access-date=November 27, 2018 |archive-date=November 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181128075236/https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_wells.html |url-status=live }}

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• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Flowers||p=}} |last1=Flowers |first1=Mary E. |author-link1=Mary E. Flowers |date=February 12, 2012 |chapter=House Resolution 770: Ida B. Wells Day in the State of Illinois |title=House Journal, Ninety-Seventh General Assembly |url=http://www.ilga.gov/house/journals/97/2012/hj097104r.pdf |series=Illinois House of Representatives 104th Legislative Day, Regular & Perfunctory Session |pages=7–8 |access-date=November 9, 2020 |quote=... presented to Michelle Duster, great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells for efforts to protect her legacy. |archive-date=November 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101173217/https://www.ilga.gov/house/journals/97/2012/HJ097104R.pdf |url-status=live }}

• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Illinois Senate Journal|1914|p=}} |date=1914 |title=Journal of the Senate of the 48th General Assembly of the State of Illinois |url=https://archive.org/details/journalofsenateo00inilli/page/n3/mode/2up |series=Illinois Senate |edition=Regular Biennial Session |location=Springfield |publisher=Illinois State Journal Co. |access-date=November 9, 2020 |via=Internet Archive }}
• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Illinois House Journal|1914|p=}} |date=1914 |title=Journal of the House of Representatives of the 48th General Assembly of the State of Illinois |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.78231602&view=1up&seq=11 |series=Illinois House of Representatives |edition=Regular Biennial Session |location=Springfield |publisher=Illinois State Journal Co. |access-date=November 9, 2020 |via=HathiTrust |archive-date=December 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204042302/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.78231602&view=1up&seq=11 |url-status=live }}

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• {{cite book |ref=none |last1=Buechler |first1=Steven Michael |date=1990 |title=Women's Movements in the United States: Woman Suffrage, Equal Rights, and Beyond |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a9lFXY0kkEwC |location=New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London |publisher=Rutgers University Press |isbn=0-8135-1558-0 |lccn=89-49083 |oclc=925227511 }}

• {{cite journal |ref=none |last1=Campbell |first1=Karlyn Kohrs |author-link1=Karlyn Kohrs Campbell |date=November 1986 |title=Style and Content in the Rhetoric of Early Afro-American Feminists |journal=Quarterly Journal of Speech |publisher=Routledge on behalf of the National Communication Association |volume=72 |issue=4 |pages=434–445 |doi=10.1080/00335638609383786 |issn=0033-5630 |eissn=1479-5779 |lccn=56053730 |oclc=4659161765 }}

• {{cite book |ref=none |last1=Davis |first1=Elizabeth Lindsay |author-link1=Elizabeth Lindsay Davis |date=1922 |title=The Story of the Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, 1900–1922 |url=https://archive.org/details/storyofillinoisf00davi |location=Chicago |publisher=Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs |oclc=830433285 |access-date=November 5, 2020 |via=Internet Archive }}{{space}}(Portraits from the book have been digitized and are archived at the New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division; {{NYPL|b11507686}} – click on "Digital Gallery".)

• {{cite book |ref=none |last1=Effinger-Crichlow |first1=Marta |date=2014 |orig-date=2000 |chapter=Chapter 1: 'Tell My People to Go West': Ida B. Wells |title=Staging Migrations Toward an American West: From Ida B. Wells to Rhodessa Jones |location=Boulder |publisher=University Press of Colorado |pages=19–60 |isbn=978-1-60732-311-2 |oclc=867020572 |jstor=j.ctt83jhx6}} {{space}}(The author published a PhD dissertation under the same title in 2000 at Northwestern University; {{OCLC|1194713125}}.)

• {{Cite journal |ref=none |last1=Gere |first1=Anne Ruggle |last2=Robbins |first2=Sarah Ruffing |title=Gendered Literacy in Black and White: Turn-of-the-Century African-American and European-American Club Women's Printed Texts |journal=Signs |volume=21 |issue=3 |pages=643–678 |date=Spring 1996 |jstor=3175174 |issn=0097-9740 |oclc=4639157083 |doi=10.1086/495101 |s2cid=143859735 |url=https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2808&context=facpubs |archive-date=August 1, 2020 |access-date=September 4, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801205437/https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2808&context=facpubs |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }}

• {{cite book |ref=none |last1=Hendricks |first1=Wanda Ann |date=1998 |title=Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y4tGXjFDb4wC |location=Bloomington & Indianapolis |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-33447-3 |lccn=98-3091 |oclc=38520618 }}

• {{Cite journal |ref=none |last=McCammon |first=Holly J. |title='Out of the Parlors and Into the Streets': The Changing Tactical Repertoire of the U.S. Women's Suffrage Movements |journal=Social Forces |publisher=University of Oxford Press |volume=81 |issue=3 |pages=787–818 |doi=10.1353/sof.2003.0037 |issn=0037-7732 |oclc=703594031 |date=March 2003 |s2cid=143456172 }}

• {{Cite journal |ref=none |last=Parker |first=Maegan F. | title = Desiring Citizenship: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Wells/Willard Controversy |journal=Women's Studies in Communication |volume=31 |issue=1 |pages=56–78 |issn=0749-1409 |oclc=347075486 |doi=10.1080/07491409.2008.10162522 |date=Spring 2008 |s2cid=143574671 }}

• {{cite book |ref=none |year=2016 |orig-date=1997 |editor1-last=Royster |editor1-first=Jacqueline Jones |title=Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892–1900 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vUYZDQAAQBAJ |edition=2nd |publisher=Bedford/St. Martin's |isbn=978-1-319-04904-1 |oclc=930997497 }}

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• {{cite web |url=http://www.duke.edu/~ldbaker/classes/AAIH/caaih/ibwells/ibwbkgrd.html |title=Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) and Her Passion for Justice |date=April 1996 |access-date=December 9, 2007 |author=Baker, Lee D. |publisher=Duke University |archive-date=December 13, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071213135004/http://www.duke.edu/~ldbaker/classes/AAIH/caaih/ibwells/ibwbkgrd.html |url-status=live }} In Franklin, Vincent P. (1995), Living Our Stories, Telling Our Truths: Autobiography and the Making of African American Intellectual Tradition. Oxford University Press.
• Pich, Hollie. "Various, Beautiful, and Terrible: The Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Australasian Journal of American Studies 34#2 (2015), pp. 59–74. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/44779734 online]
• Ida B. Wells (1862–1931) ([https://www.biography.com/activist/ida-b-wells Biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108010052/https://www.biography.com/activist/ida-b-wells |date=November 8, 2020 }})

• Davidson, James West. 'They say': Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race. Oxford University Press, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-19-516021-5}}. {{OCLC|237042761}}.
• Dray, Philip, Yours for Justice, Ida B. Wells: The Daring Life of a Crusading Journalist, Peachtree, 2008.

• {{cite web |url=https://digital.lib.niu.edu/illinois/gildedage |title=Illinois During the Gilded Age, 1866–1896 |publisher=Illinois Historical Digitization Projects at the Northern Illinois University Libraries |location=DeKalb |oclc=62124756 |access-date=March 28, 2008 |archive-date=September 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180920181706/http://gildedage.lib.niu.edu/pullmanstrike |url-status=live }}
• "Ida B. Wells, 1862–1931"
• "[https://digital.lib.niu.edu/islandora/search/mods_name_creator_ms%3A%22Wells%5C-Barnett%2C%5C%20Ida%5C%20B%22 The Writing of Ida B. Wells] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210516114702/https://digital.lib.niu.edu/islandora/search/mods_name_creator_ms%3A%22Wells%5C-Barnett%2C%5C%20Ida%5C%20B%22 |date=May 16, 2021 }}"
• [https://digital.lib.niu.edu/islandora/object/niu-gildedage%3A23615 A Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings in the United States, 1892–1893–1894]
• [https://digital.lib.niu.edu/illinois/gildedage/ida-b-wells "About Ida B. Wells and Her Writings"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319075502/https://digital.lib.niu.edu/illinois/gildedage/ida-b-wells |date=March 19, 2022 }}. Schechter, Patricia Ann, PhD. Portland State University.
• [https://digital.lib.niu.edu/illinois/gildedage/ida-b-wells#biography-of-ida-b-wells "Biography of Ida B Wells"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319075502/https://digital.lib.niu.edu/illinois/gildedage/ida-b-wells#biography-of-ida-b-wells |date=March 19, 2022 }}
• [https://digital.lib.niu.edu/illinois/gildedage/ida-b-wells#the-anti-lynching-pamphlets-of-ida-b-wells-1892-1920 "The Anti-Lynching Pamphlets of Ida B. Wells, 1892–1920"]
• "Video" – In the videos, Schechter talks about Wells' experiences and legacy – [http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/idabwells/video.html archive link] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120507015121/http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/idabwells/video.html |date=May 7, 2012 }} via Wayback Machine. Archived from the original on July 19, 2008 (14 files archived in RealMedia format). Retrieved March 28, 2008.

• {{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/frontpagegirls00jean |url-access=registration |title=Front Page Girls: Women Journalists in American Culture and Fiction, 1880–1930 |access-date=July 16, 2015 |author=Lutes, Jean Marie |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=978-0-8014-7412-5 |year=2007 }}

• {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PjqS0NaN-4gC |title=The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells: An Intimate Portrait of the Activist as a Young Woman |edition=illustrated, revised |publisher=Beacon Press |year=1995 |first=Ida B. |last=Wells |editor-first=Miriam |editor-last=Decosta-Willis |isbn=0-8070-7065-3 }} Foreword by Mary Helen Washington, Afterword by Dorothy Sterling. (Memoirs, travel notes and selected articles.)

• {{cite web |ref={{SfnRef|Shay||p=}} |url=https://lcrm.lib.unc.edu/blog/index.php/2012/07/16/remembering-ida-b-wells-barnett/ |title=Remembering Ida B. Wells-Barnett |last=Shay |first=Alison |date=July 16, 2012 |publisher=University of North Carolina |location=Chapel Hill |access-date=September 29, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130801030922/https://lcrm.lib.unc.edu/blog/index.php/2012/07/16/remembering-ida-b-wells-barnett/ |archive-date=August 1, 2013 |via=Wayback Machine }}

::: This work was originally posted on a blog that was part of UNC's Long Civil Rights Movement Project – The LCRM Project ({{JSTOR|3660172}}). It was funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and UNC for five years, from 2008 to 2012, and its published works were a collaboration of (i) the UNC Special Collections Library, (ii) the University of North Carolina Press, and (iii) the Southern Oral History Program in UNC's Center for the Study of the American South. A fourth partner during the project's first three years was the Center for Civil Rights of UNC's School of Law.

• {{cite book |last=Silkey |first=Sarah Lynn |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AmyEBgAAQBAJ |title=Black Woman Reformer: Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic Activism |location=Athens, Georgia |publisher=University of Georgia Press |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-8203-5378-4 |oclc=1005870470 }}
• {{cite journal |last=Summerville |first=Raymond M. |title='Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty': The Proverbs and Proverbial Sayings of Ida B. Wells-Barnett |journal=Proverbium |volume=38 |year=2021 |pages=315–360 |issn=0743-782X |access-date=February 18, 2022 |url=https://naklada.ffos.hr/casopisi/proverbium/issue/view/2/2 }}

• Wells, Ida B. (1893) [http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/wellslynchlaw.html "Lynch Law"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070611142810/http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/wellslynchlaw.html |date=June 11, 2007 }}, History Is a Weapon website.
• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Wells, The Guardian, |2018|p=}} |last1=Wells |first1=Ida B. |date=April 27, 2018 |title='Lynching is color-line murder': the blistering speech denouncing America's shame |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/27/ida-b-wells-barnett-national-negro-conference-chicago-speech |work=The Guardian |location=London |access-date=October 8, 2020 }} Republication of "Lynching: Our National Crime", Wells' speech delivered during the 1909 National Negro Conference, published in the book, [https://archive.org/details/proceedingsof00nati/page/173/mode/2up Proceedings of the National Negro Conference, 1909.] pp. 174–179. New York: May 31 and June 1 – book is accessible via Internet Archive).
• {{gutenberg author| id=5765| name=Ida B. Wells}}.

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• Norwood, Arlisha. [https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/ida-b-wells-barnett "Ida B. Wells"]. National Women's History Museum. 2017.
• [https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.IBWELLS Ida B. Wells Papers, 1884–1976]. Joseph Regenstein Library, University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center; {{OCLC|19496699}}
• [http://photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu/db.xqy?one=apf1-08624.xml "Wells, Ida B." (family photo)] University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center, Photo Archive

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