ida b wells?

Answer 1

Tazewell Johnson, a dramatist, wrote a play, Constant Star, about Ida B. Wells-Barnett which included 20 spirituals sungs by the five actresses who play the various parts, including Ms. Wells-Barnett at many points in her life.

Here's the way Johnson described her in a succinct but accurate summary:

"A woman born in slavery, she would grow to become one of the great pioneer activists of the Civil Rights movement. A precursor of Rosa Parks, she was a suffragette, newspaper editor and publisher, investigative journalist, co-founder of the NAACP, political candidate, mother, wife, and the single most powerful leader in the anti-lynching campaign in America. A dynamic, controversial, temperamental, uncompromising . . . woman, she broke bread and crossed swords with some of the movers and shakers of her time: Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Marcus Garvey, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, President McKinley. By any fair assessment, she was a seminal figure in Post-Reconstruction America."

Enter her name on a Yahoo Search, and you will find many, many webpages with a lot of details about here remarkable life and work.