Ida Wells
The way right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them
The young life of Ida Wells
She was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi in 1862. Her parents were former slaves. her mother was a famous cook. Her father was a skilled carpenter. she had 7 siblings. When she was 14 are parents and her youngest sibling died form yellow fever. Also at 14 she started teaching to kept the family together after their parents death. She kept on her education while she was teaching, she got it from Rust Collage. Later on she and her siblings moved to Memphis with there aunt to take care of the siblings.
Investigater Wells
She against segregation. She was a muckraker. She investigated lynches. When she was undercover she found out that 728 were killed a year. She exposed them by writing a book called Southern horrors. With that she got to travel around Europe to tell what happen in her investigation. When she was in England her bus was broken into and her typewriter was smash and was a note that said if you continue with your works on freedom with African Americans you will die. so she left England and went to Chicago.
Through Out Her Life
Southern Horrors
she wrote this book when she finished her investigation of people being lynch. It was horrible because 728 were killed in two years.
Old age
She was traveling around England when someone broke in and smashed her typewriter and threaten her if she continues her travels and if she returns to the south. and she died when she was 68 of a kidney disease.
Ida Wells vs. KKK
She was against them. Because they killed kind good people for no reason. And that they were nieghbor hood watch.