text:  Ultimately, Ida B. Wells did march, not in back, but with her state delegation of Illinois. Many black women ignored the segregation request. Author and historian Michelle Duster is Wells' great-granddaughter. She says she grew up hearing that Wells was uncompromising. I think she was really actually willing to die for her convictions because she believed so strongly that she is an American and she deserves to have first-class citizenship.