USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Wells continued her reporting, writing for The New York Age, the Chicago Daily Inter-Ocean, The Conservator, and many other newspapers. She published the pamphlet Southern Horrors later in 1892, working off of what she had written for the Age and providing additional details.

Detailed explanation-2: -She became a full-time journalist after being dismissed for criticizing the Memphis School Board, and she edited the Memphis Free Speech newspaper. The tragic lynching of three friends in 1892 led her to perhaps her most famous cause: documenting and denouncing executions performed by the mob.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) was an African-American woman who was born into slavery in Mississippi and eventually became the co-owner and editor of the Memphis Free Speech.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Ida B. Writings published in her lifetime include Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1893), The Reason Why the Colored American is Not in the World’s Columbian Exposition (1893), A Red Record (1895), Mob Rule in New Orleans (1900), and numerous newspaper articles.