Michelle Duster is an American author and public historian.
Her father worked for Comed,[1] and her mother was an English teacher and civic leader.
Growing up in Chicago's South Side, Duster began writing from an early age.
Wells, Voice of Truth: Educator, Feminist, and Anti-lynching Civil Rights Leader[9] and one young adult biography, Ida B.
She received the Multi-Generational Activist Award from the Illinois Human Rights Commission in 2019, and the 2019 Martin Luther King Jr. Social Justice Award from her alma mater, Dartmouth College.