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: -Ida B. Wells was a courageous and outspoken woman who conducted an incredible crusade against black oppression on the pages of newspapers and the lecture platform from the post-Reconstruction period until her death in 1931.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1885, she entered journalism and became part-owner of the Memphis Free Speech newspaper in 1889. On March 9, 1892, Wells-Barnett learned that a mob had lynched an African-American man and grocery store owner, Thomas Moss, along with two of his workers, Henry Stewart and Calvin McDowell.

Detailed explanation-4: -African-American journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. She also fought for woman suffrage.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.