Wells Websites
- Ida B. Wells (Northern Illinois Univ.)Includes digitized versions of some of Wells writings.
Background/Context
- Encyclopedia of African American Society (2 vols.)Call Number: ref E 185 .E546 2005
- Encyclopedia of American Social Movements (4 vols.)Call Number: ref HN 57 .E594 2004
- Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America (3 vols.)Call Number: ref E 185.61 .E544 1998
- Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture (3 vols.)Call Number: ref DT 16.5 .E53 2008
- Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration (3 vols.)Call Number: ref E 185.6 .E54 2006
- Jim Crow Encyclopedia (2 vols.)Call Number: ref E 185.61 .J53 2008
Biographical Sources
- American National BiographyCall Number: ref CT 213 .A68 1999
- Black women in AmericaCall Number: ref E 185.86 .B542 2005
- Dictionary of Literary BiographyContains two lengthy articles on Ida B. Wells, one from American Women Prose Writers, 1870-1920 and one from American Newspaper Journalists, 1873-1900.
- Oxford African American Studies CenterIncludes all articles from these core reference works (in addition to drawing from other sources): Black Women in America; African American National Biography; Africana; Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895; and Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present.
