Ida B. Wells publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.

Ida B. Wells

American journalist and civil rights activist (1862–1931)

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an American investigative journalist, sociologist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Wells dedicated her career to combating…