Ida B. Wells
African American journalist, anti-lynching crusader, suffragist, and co-founder of the NAACP. Author of Southern Horrors and A Red Record. Documentary investigator of lynching when no other reporter would.
Ida B. Wells
Ask Ida B. Wells about anti-lynching, Black journalism, and co-founding the NAACP. Sit with the reporter who counted the lynchings no one else would record.
African American journalist, anti-lynching crusader, suffragist, and co-founder of the NAACP. Author of Southern Horrors and A Red Record. Documentary investigator of lynching when no other reporter would.
- Born
- 1862
- Died
- 1931
- Birthplace
- Holly Springs, Mississippi
- Nationality
- United States
What Ida B. Wells can help you think about
Ida B. Wells is a fitting guide when your questions touch activists & reformers and journalists. Bring whatever you're untangling — a decision you're weighing, a doubt you're sitting with, a problem that won't loosen — and let the conversation move from there.
The answers draw on the shape of Ida B. Wells's thinking across work like Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, A Red Record, and Co-founded NAACP — translated into a voice you can actually talk back to.
Ask plainly. Push back. Follow a thread until it goes somewhere. This isn't a lookup — it's a conversation with a mentor who's already done the thinking you're about to do.
- Activists & Reformers
- Journalists