Skip to main content
Ida B. Wells: American Stories

Saturday, February 18 at 9pm on MPT

About the program

There are few historical figures whose life and work speak to the current moment more than Ida B. Wells, the 19th-century crusading investigative journalist, civil rights leader, and passionate suffragist. In the wake of her recent posthumous Pulitzer Prize citation, Chicago street naming, and the release of a revealing new biography by her great-granddaughter Michelle Duster, this hour-long documentary tells her story as never before.