FAQ About Ida B. Wells

Ida B. Wells was an influential African-American journalist, educator, and civil rights activist who was born on July 16, 1862, in Holly Springs, Mississippi, and died on March 25, 1931, in Chicago, Illinois. She was best known for her courageous investigative journalism that exposed the horrors of lynching in the United States and for being a founding member of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).