Civil rights activist Ida B. Wells will be honored with a sculpture in Chicago. The Ida B. Wells housing project was featured in the Ghetto Life 101 documentary on NPR. The documentary was distributed through Sound Portraits.
The Associated Press and ABC News are reporting Wells' name endures on a grade school and a professorship in the city. The monument aims to reflect the full legacy of a woman who was born into slavery in Mississippi and went on to become a well-respected crusader against injustice and outspoken anti-lynching activist. So far, the Wells Commemorative Art Committee has raised 10% of the funds needed to create the sculpture.
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