Ida B. Wells

Ida B. Wells Ida B. Wells was an African American investigative journalist turned civil rights advocate and anti-lynching activist. Wells was born on July 16th, 1862, in Holly Springs, Mississippi between the end of the Civil War and the enactment of the Emancipation Proclamation. As a journalist she gained popularity for her writings about anti-lynching and racial injustices. Ida’s crusade to discover the truth behind the lynching in the Southern States was ignited after a mob murdered three of her friends by lynching. Through Wells’ investigative journalism she discovered that the lynching we horrendous tactics to maintain power and retaliation against African Americans. With her finding in hand, she went on to publish “Southern Horrors: Lynching Law in All It’s Phases’ and “A Red Record: Lynching in the United States.” In Southern Horrors, Ida writes: "It is with no pleasure I have dipped my hands in the corruption here exposed. S omebody must show that the Afro-American race ...