Ida B. Wells, Voice of Truth: Educator, Feminist, and Anti-Lynching Civil Rights Leader

“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”

Some people refer to my great-grandmother Ida B. Wells as a “boss”. She was an educator, a journalist, a feminist, a businesswoman, a newspaper owner, a public speaker, a suffragist, a civil rights activist, and a woman’s club leader.
She was a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a founder of the National Association of Colored Women’s Club (NACWC), a founder of the Alpha Suffrage Club, and a founder of the Negro Fellowship League.
She wrote.
She spoke.
She traveled.
She challenged the racist and sexist norms of her time that often involved violence and terror.
Although she endured enormous criticism and threats to her life, she never gave up.
She fought for equality and justice for almost fifty years.
Ida B. Wells was born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi, on July 16, 1862.