Notes

-Ida B. Wells was born a slave in 1862. Her parents and youngest sibling both died when she was fourteen of a fever. She then took a teaching job in a black school house to keep the rest of the family together. She was born in Holly Springs Mississippi and died in Chicago Illinois in 1931. She was a women’s right advocate, journalist and African American Civil Rights advocate. She moved to Memphis in 1880 to write in a newspaper.Writing was Ida’s way of protesting her thoughts on Civil Rights. She married Ferdinand L. Barnett. She moved to Chicago where she continued fighting for black rights. Although she did not live to see freedom and civil rights she made a first and lasting impact on The Civil Rights Movement.
--Born into slavery during the Civil War, she later risked her life investigating and exposing violence against black people in the South, and became a co-owner of The Memphis Free Speech so that she had the editorial power to do so. After an angry mob burned the newspaper's office down, she kept going. She published her writings throughout the U.S. and abroad. She traveled, she taught, she spoke.