Occupation: muckraking journalist, lecturer, activist
Known for: anti-lynching crusader, reporter, activist for racial justice
Also known as: Ida B. Wells
About Ida B. Wells-Barnett:
Ida B. Wells-Barnett, born a slave just before the Emancipation Proclamation, went to work as a teacher when she had to support her family after her parents died in an epidemic. She wrote on racial justice for Memphis newspapers as a reporter and newspaper owner, and was forced to leave town when a mob attacked her offices in retaliation for writing against an 1892 lynching.
After briefly living in New York, she moved to Chicago, where she married and became involved in local racial justice reporting and organizing. She maintained her militancy and activism throughout her life.
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