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Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells-Barnett, born into slavery in 1862, became a pivotal civil rights leader. Orphaned at 16, she supported her siblings and forged a journalism career, exposing racial injustices through her work with the Memphis Free Speech. Her activism intensified after the 1892 lynching of close friends, inspiring her seminal pamphlet, “Southern Horrors.” Wells, a co-founder of the NAACP, championed civil rights and women’s suffrage, earning a posthumous Pulitzer Prize special citation in 2020 for her courageous reporting.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett, born into slavery in 1862, became a pivotal civil rights leader. Orphaned at 16, she supported her siblings and forged a journalism career, exposing racial injustices through her work with the Memphis Free Speech. Her activism intensified after the 1892 lynching of close friends, inspiring her seminal pamphlet, “Southern Horrors.” Wells, a co-founder of the NAACP, championed civil rights and women’s suffrage, earning a posthumous Pulitzer Prize special citation in 2020 for her courageous reporting.
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells-Barnett, born into slavery in 1862, became a pivotal civil rights leader. Orphaned at 16, she supported her siblings and forged a journalism career, exposing racial injustices through her work with the Memphis Free Speech. Her activism intensified after the 1892 lynching of close friends, inspiring her seminal pamphlet, “Southern Horrors.” Wells, a co-founder of the NAACP, championed civil rights and women’s suffrage, earning a posthumous Pulitzer Prize special citation in 2020 for her courageous reporting.