The relevant term is "administrative discretion" - the exercise of professional judgement which is not done according to the strictly formal rules, but through other, more informal means, such as making rules and choosing some and not other people for offices.
Answer:
Ida B. Wells fought for civil rights.
Explanation:
She fought for the Civil Rights Movement was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Burgess originally meant a freeman of a borough (England, Wales, Ireland) or burgh (Scotland). It later came to mean an elected or unelected official of a municipality, or the representative of a borough in the English House of Commons. The term was also used in some of the American colonies.