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- In 1884, Wells-Barnett filed a lawsuit against a train car company in Memphis for unfair treatment. She had been thrown off a first-class train, despite having a ticket. Although she won the case on the local level, the ruling was eventually overturned in federal court.
- I have a ticket.
- why are you here!? you don't belong here.
- After the lynching of one of her friends, Wells-Barnett turned her attention to white mob violence. She became skeptical about the reasons black men were lynched and set out to investigate several cases.
- This injustice led Ida B. Wells to pick up a pen to write about issues of race and politics in the South.
- She even took on the subject of lynching, and in 1898, Wells brought her anti-lynching campaign to the White House, leading a protest in Washington, DC, and calling for President William McKinley to make reforms.
- Wells-Barnett's achievements were the publication of a detailed book about lynching entitled A Red Record (1895), the cofounding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the founding of what may have been the first Black women's suffrage group.
- This is the story of Ida B wells. She was born on July 16th 1865.She was a prominent journalist, activist, and researcher. Ida B. Wells never backed down in the fight for justice. She was a true hero
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