Ida B. Wells Barnett
was a co-founder of the NAACP,
an anti-lynch crusader and a Black female journalist.
After earning degrees from Rust College and Fisk
University, she taught in Memphis Tennessee and
began writing articles for the Black Newspaper,
Free Speech. She is well known for being
outspoken against the senseless lynching of Blacks
and often traveled to Europe to publicize the facts
she learned. Ida was the most famous Black female
journalist of her time. She wrote articles for the
Memphis Watchman, Detroit Plain Dealer,
Indianapolis World, Little Rock Sun,
and many others.
Ida
B. Wells Barnett
