A photo shows Ida B. Wells-Barnett with her son Charles Aked Barnett, circa 1917-1919. On display at the Harold Washington Library Center in Chicago in 2015, the photo was on loan from the University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center, Ida B. Wells Papers.
The Ida B. Wells-Barnett House in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago was the residence of civil rights advocate Ida B. Wells, and her husband Ferdinand Lee Barnett from 1919 to 1930, May 4, 2020.
The Ida B. Wells-Barnett House in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago was the residence of civil rights advocate Ida B. Wells, and her husband Ferdinand Lee Barnett from 1919 to 1930, May 4, 2020.
Ida B. Wells in a photo taken in the 1890s.
Flowers sit on the grave of Ida B. Wells after supporters placed them there at Oak Woods Cemetery on April 22, 2018, in Chicago.
Michelle Duster, the great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, stands in front of Wells’ former home at 3624 S. King Drive in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood on July 25, 2018.
A desk owned and used by Ida B. Wells was on display at the DuSable Museum of African American History for an exhibit titled “Freedom, Resistance and the Journey Toward Equality” in 2015.
A portrait of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, circa 1920.
Michelle Duster, left, great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, is embraced by Ald. Sophia King during a ceremony to unveil the renaming of Congress Parkway to Ida B. Wells Drive at Chicago’s Harold Washington Library on Feb. 11, 2019.
An inbound traffic sign on the Eisenhower Expressway (I-290) shows Ida B. Wells Drive in Chicago on May 13, 2019.
Ida B. Wells was a journalist and activist who brought attention to the lynchings in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century.
The then-new Ida B. Wells Drive sign at South Dearborn Street in Chicago on Feb. 11, 2019.
Flowers sit on the grave of Ida B. Wells after supporters placed them there at Oak Woods Cemetery on April 22, 2018, in Chicago.
