Ida B. Wells was born on 16th of July 1862 in Holly Springs Mississippi, she went to her rest on the 25th of March 1931 in Chicago, Illinois. She was a celebrated social activist, teacher, speaker, editor and part-owner of a newspaper called “Free Speech”. She was a courageous woman. She risked her life to challenge systematic racism and document lynching through interviews and collected statistics in the American South. She travelled to London and Newcastle touring and reporting on what she had witnessed and experienced. She was an anti-lynching campaigner and published many stories on what she had seen. An advocate and pioneer, she will be always remembered.
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