Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

How old is Ida B Wells now?

Death. Wells died of kidney disease on March 25, 1931, at the age of 68, in Chicago, Illinois.

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Ida Bell Wells was born on the Bolling Farm near Holly Springs, Mississippi, July 16, 1862. She was the eldest child of James Madison Wells (1840–1878) and Elizabeth "Lizzie" (Warrenton). ... He founded a successful carpentry business in Holly Springs in 1867, and his wife Lizzie became known as a "famous cook".