-Ida B.

Wells-
Ida B. Wells could be described as a crusader for the
justice, and a defender of democracy. Wells would be a leader
for her efforts to abolish lynching and establish racial equality.
She was just as prominent as any women, involved in the
movement at this particular moment. However the fact that
she was an African-American female a lot of her efforts
remained unknown.

Ida B. Wells was born a slave in Holy Springs, Mississippi,

on July 16, 1862. She was born to two parents that were also
both slaves. She successfully obtained her education, even
with the misfortune of her parents and sibling's passing., due
to a yellow fever epidemic. She eventually earned her teaching
degree, after furthering ehr education at the University of
Fisk.

During a trip traveling in Memphis, Idaa B. Wells

experienced her first racial inequality experience. She had a
first-class ticket but was forced to move by a conductors
decision, to give her seat to a white man. She was not able to
defend herself, but just from this one experience she was able
to defend herself through her writing.

Noticing that writing about subjects she cared for, was a

strong interest. Wells began publishing works about the
conditions of African Americans, and what she felt as injustice,
in newspapers. After an brutal murdering of her friends by
lynching, she systematically attacked lynchings in her writing.
Her writings eventually evolved into the giving of lectures. Her
lectures eventually spread internationally also, reaching places
such as England.

In 1895 Wells moved to Chicago and married Frederick

Barnett. She remained active in her awareness campaigns,
even while pregnant. She participated in various efforts to
gain the vote for women and against racial injustice.

She helped found some of the most profound clubs at her

time, for instance, she was one of the founders of the NAACP
and established the first negro Women's civics club in Chicago.
She urged women and African-Americans to come together and
get their justice.
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Webster.edu/~woolflm/idabwells.html

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africawithin.com/bios/ida wells.html

Duster, A. (Ed.)(1970). Crusade for Justice: The autobiography

of Ida B. Wells.

Sterling, D. (1988) Black Foremothers