USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Ida B. Wells-Barnett, the fiery journalist, lecturer and civil rights militant, is best known for her tireless crusade against lynching and her fearless efforts to expose violence against blacks.

Detailed explanation-2: -She launched a campaign to publicize the horrors of lynching and began writing and lecturing about it across the country. She wrote two pamphlets, entitled A Red Record: Lynchings in the United States and Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases . In those works, she catalogued 241 lynchings.

Detailed explanation-3: -She fought tirelessly for the right of all women to vote, despite facing racism within the suffrage movement. On August 18, 1920, Congress ratified the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution giving women the right to vote.

Detailed explanation-4: -According to Osborne, Wells was unequivocal in her expectations that the white women in the suffrage movement must embrace Black women and stand by them in their fight against racial discrimination and violence.

Detailed explanation-5: -Anti-lynching crusaders like Ida B. Wells composed newspaper columns to criticize the atrocities of lynching. And several important civil rights organizations-including NAACP-emerged during this time to combat racial violence. NAACP led a courageous battle against lynching.