The Story Of: Ida B. Wells

One of America's Greatest Heroes

Analise Acosta|February 19, 2025
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells, ca. 1893
Public Domain, Photo by Mary Garrity

Who is Ida B. Wells ?

Ida B. Wells was a jounalist, anti-lynching activist, women's suffragette, and an early civil rights movement leader. In 1895, Wells published "The Red Record", which outlines the horrors of lynching to the Northern audience.

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