Early Life
The city in Tennessee where Ida B. Wells was born.
Holly Springs
The newspaper Ida co-owned in Memphis.
The Memphis Free Speech
Wells is best known for fighting against this form of racial violence.
Lynching
Wells inspired generations of these leaders.
Civil rights activists
The age Ida became an orphan due to a yellow fever epidemic.
16
The violent act Wells reported on that forced her to leave Memphis.
Lynching
The organization she co-founded for African American women.
National Association of Colored Women (NACW)
Streets and memorials today honor her life and work.
Her legacy or memorials
Her first profession before journalism.
Teacher
The type of evidence she used in her articles to prove lynching was real.
Statistics or documented evidence.
The 1895 pamphlet she wrote exposing lynching statistics.
The Red Record
In 2020, Wells received this posthumous national recognition.
Pulitzer Prize special citation
The year Ida B. Wells was born.
1862
Wells’ investigative journalism helped bring national and international attention to this.
Racial injustice or lynching.
The parade Wells challenged segregation in, supporting women’s rights in 1913.
Women’s Suffrage Parade in Washington, D.C.
Her writings are still studied in these areas of education.
journalism, history, and activism