Ida B. Wells
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 Ida B. Wells facts

• 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
• Born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi, Wells lost her parents and a sibling in the 1878 yellow fever epidemic at a young age
• She went to work and, with her grandmother, kept the rest of the family intact
• She moved with some of her siblings to Memphis, Tennessee, finding pay better for teachers
• Later as an activist, Wells documented lynching in the United States in the 1890s, showing that it was often used in the South as a way to control or punish Black people who competed with whites, rather than being based on criminal acts by black people, as was usually claimed by whites
• She was active in women's rights and the women's suffrage movement, establishing several notable women's organizations
• Wells was a skilled and persuasive rhetorician and traveled internationally on lecture tours