Ida B Wells Accomplishments

Ida B. Wells Barnett was born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi on July 16,1862. Wells was an African American journalist, a newspaper editor, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She influenced the civil rights movement of the 1960s with her own fearless battles against discrimination decades earlier. But she herself would not live to witness a new era of race relations because she later passed away at age 69, she died of uremia (kidney failure) on march 25, 1931 in Chicago. Ida B. Wells Barnett deserves a stamp of honor because she took a stand against lynching. Wells also deserves a stamp because she was very active, trying to get justice for African Americans knowing that it could be done with their own efforts.
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Except for wells she had decided to be the one to take a stand against lynching which does deserve a stamp of honor. I choose to say that she deserves a stamp of honor because “after three friends of hers had been lynched by a mob, Wells began an editorial campaign against lynching.” The death of her friends made Wells finally take a stand and make a statement. No one was really taking any actions against the lynching so Ms. Wells decided to take it into her own hands. By doing this Wells put herself out there, I believe that this had to take a lot of courage because back then it was not the best of times for colored folks. “She continued her anti-lynching crusades, first as a staff writer for the New York Age and then as a lecturer and organizer of anti-lynching societies.” Wells did not stop with writing for one paper only she went on to write for

1898 -1902 Wells served as a secretary of the National Afro-American Council but, in 1909 she participated in a meeting of the Niagara Movement and the founding of the (NAACP) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People that had come from it. “In 1910 Wells -Barnett founded and became the first president of the Negro fellowship league, which aided newly arrived migrants from the south.” There was strong support for women's suffrage but, the black women sometimes faced discrimination within the suffrage movement itself. Even with some of the black clubwomen participating actively in the (NAWSA) National American Woman Suffrage Association, the NAWSA did not always have open arms for them. Thus the whole it taking courage to take a stand as Wells did. “In 1913 she founded what may have been the first black woman suffrage group, Chicago’s Alpha Suffrage Club.” Ida was not the only one that founded the group she had the help from a white colleague named Belle Squire. They both formed what was called “the largest black woman's suffrage club in the state.” The club became a very important part of black female political action in Chicago because it gave a forum for them to learn about things related to the responsibility of being a member of society with matters and to develop success plans/ways of