1. Libni Lopez 6 th period

2.  Ida B. Wells was an African American sociologist, civil rights leader, and women's rights leader.

3.  As a woman born into slavery, Ida B. Wells became a pioneer of civil rights movements and women’s rights movements.  Precursor to Rosa Parks, suffragist, co-founder of NAACP, political candidate, and single most powerful leader in anti-lynching campaign.

4.  Born into slavery July 16 th 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi just before the emancipation proclamation, died a hero March 25 th 1931

5.  She was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Moved to Memphis in 1880 and attended summer sessions at Fisk University in Nashville. Moved to New York to take a more active role in lynching issues. After working in New York, she moved to Chicago to finish her work.

6.  Ida B. Wells was militant in her demands for equality and justice for African Americans. With that mentality she became a very respected civil rights movement leader, woman's rights movement leader, and the biggest power for the anti-lynching campaign.

7.  “If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.”  “I’d Rather go down in history as on lone negro who dared to tell the government that it had done a dastardly thing than to save my skin by taking back what I said.”  “There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know ho to find it.”

8.  Ida B. Wells was born months before the emancipation proclamation was signed.  She was the co-founder of the NAACP  Wells challenged segregation decades before Rosa Parks, ran for Congress and attended suffrage meetings with the likes of Susan B. Anthony and Jane Addams