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Ida B. Wells was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and early leader of the human rights movement.
She was born in slavery a few months before the famous Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln. Since 1884, she led a high-profile case against a railway company, whose guide threw Ida out of the first-class carriage. She documented the lynching in the United States, showing that it was often used to control and punish blacks who competed with whites, rather than being based on criminal acts committed by blacks, as the white crowd usually claimed. She wrote two books about lynching, Southern Horrors and The Red Record, attracting the public to combat this phenomenon. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
She was active in the women's rights movement and in the suffragist movement, setting up several significant women's organizations. She defended the joint struggle of white and black American women for their rights.
