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: -Civil rights campaign in Chicago In Chicago, Ida Wells first attacked the exclusion of Black people from the Chicago World’s Fair, writing a pamphlet sponsored by Frederick Douglas and others. She continued her anti-lynching campaign and began to work tirelessly against segregation and for women’s suffrage.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -She took a job as a writer for the New York Age and continued to investigate and write about lynchings throughout the United States. In 1895, she compiled the first statistical pamphlet on lynchings in the nation.