Autobiography ---- edited by her daughter Alfreda Barnett Duster

 

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett

  (July 16, 1864 – March 25, 1931)

Autobiography and death

Wells began writing her autobiography, Crusade for Justice (1928), but never finished the book; it would be posthumously published, edited by her daughter Alfreda Barnett Duster, in 1970, as Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells.^[66][67]
 
Wells died of uremia (kidney failure) in Chicago on March 25, 1931, at the age of 68. She was buried in the Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago.