Ida B. Wells Marches for the Vote

This picture-book biography follows Ida B. Wells from her Mississippi childhood after emancipation through the values modeled by her parents. As she grew older, Wells used her voice in work as a teacher, caregiver to her siblings, editorial writer, and journalist confronting racial and gender injustice. The narrative centers on her role in the 1913 women’s suffrage parade in Washington, D.C., where Black women participated despite exclusion by the march’s white-only organizing association.