Ordinary Women: Daring to Defy History

Season 1 • Episode 4: The Courageous Life of Ida B. Wells • Watch with subtitles

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The Courageous Life of Ida B. Wells

Episode 4: The Courageous Life of Ida B. Wells

November 22, 2016

Few stories are as dramatic as that of of Ida B. Wells, a woman who was born a slave in Mississippi in the midst of the Civil War, and became a daring investigative reporter and civil rights crusader who would one day be called the “loudest and most persistent voice for truth” in an era of injustice.

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