Summary
Ida B. Wells is important to American History because her work placed the United States on the world stage for the racial discrimination and treatments of African Americans. Without the writings and popularity of Wells as well as her international speaking events, it is unlikely that American policies would have changed to end lynching in America. By exposing the truth that the United States was being complicit with the crimes of lynchings going on in the Southern states and discriminatory treatment placed international pressure of the United States government to take a stand.
