Ida B. Wells was an African-American investigative journalist, educator and civil rights activist. She was born into slavery in Mississippi, but liberated during the Civil War.
In the 1890s, when writing for the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight, a newspaper she co-owned, Wells documented lynching as a way to control and exert power over Black people. Her newspaper presses were destroyed by a white mob following the publication, and after constant threats, she was forced to leave the South and move to Chicago.
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Ida B Wells was threatened by Southerners when she defended victims of lynchings. - Ape.x
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