Libni Lopez 6 th period
Ida B. Wells was an African American sociologist, civil rights leader, and women's rights leader.
As a woman born into slavery, Ida B. Wells became a pioneer of civil rights movements and women’s rights movements. Precursor to Rosa Parks, suffragist, co-founder of NAACP, political candidate, and single most powerful leader in anti-lynching campaign.
Born into slavery July 16 th 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi just before the emancipation proclamation, died a hero March 25 th 1931
She was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Moved to Memphis in 1880 and attended summer sessions at Fisk University in Nashville. Moved to New York to take a more active role in lynching issues. After working in New York, she moved to Chicago to finish her work.
Ida B. Wells was militant in her demands for equality and justice for African Americans. With that mentality she became a very respected civil rights movement leader, woman's rights movement leader, and the biggest power for the anti-lynching campaign.
“If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.” “I’d Rather go down in history as on lone negro who dared to tell the government that it had done a dastardly thing than to save my skin by taking back what I said.” “There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know ho to find it.”
Ida B. Wells was born months before the emancipation proclamation was signed. She was the co-founder of the NAACP Wells challenged segregation decades before Rosa Parks, ran for Congress and attended suffrage meetings with the likes of Susan B. Anthony and Jane Addams