Ida Bell Wells-Barnett commonly known as Ida B. Wells, was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist, Georgist and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.She became the most famous black woman in America, during a life that was centered on combating prejudice and violence.Wells was born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Freed by the American Civil War, she lost both her parents and a sibling in the 1878 yellow fever epidemic, when she was 16 years-old. She went to work and kept the rest of the family intact with the help of her grandmother. She moved with some of her siblings …show more content…
Ida B. Wells continued writing newspaper articles at New York Age, where she exchanged the subscription list of Memphis Free Speech for a part ownership in the paper. She also wrote pamphlets and spoke widely against lynching.In 1893, Wells went to Great Britain, returning again the next year. There, she spoke about lynching in America, found significant support for anti-lynching efforts, and saw the organization of the British Anti-Lynching Society. She believed in the power of the truth to change, over time, the way people lived and who their laws served.
She held her ground she also had a lawsuit after a railroad company kicked her off of her first class seat.Although she won in court, the case was reversed on appeal.Being a woman only made the obstacles she faced she was very determined. No content will bring her confidence down. A lynching in Memphis incensed Ida B. Wells and led to her to begin an anti-lynching campaign in 1892. Three African-American men Tom Moss, Calvin McDowell and Will Stewart.They were arrested and brought to jail, but they didn't have a chance to defend themselves against the charges. A lynch mob took them from their cells and murdered them.Wells wrote articles about the situation that brought danger onto her