Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida Barnett Wells was born during slavery and lived during the emancipating of enslaved African-American. Wells witnessed the birth of Jim Crow laws instituted to prevent African-Americans for what Abraham Lincoln stated about African-American, "free but not equal" under the separate but equal doctrine. As an educated woman she discovered that would not protect an African-American woman from being manhandled by raced white men. During Wells time period she experienced the silence on the intersectional position of being both an African-American and a woman. Click here to read more.