| NAME OF LEADER | DESCRIPTION |
| IDA B WELLS | She was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Over the course of a lifetime dedicated to combating prejudice and violence, and the fight for African-American equality, especially that of women, Wells arguably became the most famous Black woman in the United States. |
| NAME | DESCRIPTION | CITY | STATE/COUNTRY/PROVINCE |
| BIRTHPLACE | BOILING GATE WOOD HOUSE | HOLLY SPRINGS | TENNESSEE |
| STUDIED | FISK UNIVERSITY | NASHVILLE | TENNESSEE |
| STUDIED | LEMOYNE–OWEN COLLEGE | MEMPHIS | TENNENSEE |
| STUDIED | SHAW COLLEGE ( RUST COLLEGE) | HOLLY SPRINGS | TENNENSEE |
| MUSEUM | BOILING GATEWOOD HOUSE | HOLLY SPRINGS | TENNESEE |
| MUSEUM | DUSABLE AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM | CHICAGO | ILLINOIS |
| MUSEUM | MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY | CHICAGO | ILLINOIS |
| MUSEUM | CHICAGO HISTORY MUSEUM | CHICAGO | ILLINOIS |
| HOUSE | PRIVATE RESIDENCE | CHICAGO | ILLINOIS |
| DEATHPLACE | MERCY HOSPITAL | CHICAGO | ILLINOIS |
| BURIAL | OAKWOOD CEMETRY | CHICAGO | ILLINOIS |
| STATUE | IDA B WELLS STATUE | MEMPHIS | TENNENSEE |
Ida B Wells lived near his birthplace Holly Springs, MS from 1862 to 1881. Learns to read and write. While she had gone to Memphis, TN briefly in 1878, her parents died of malaria. He took responsibility of all her siblings. She attended Rust College while at Holly Springs.
HOLLY SPRINGS MS
HOLLY SPRINGS MS
She moved to Memphis in 1883. Joins as a partner and editor of newspaper, ‘Free Speech’. After her friends are lynched and killed for starting a grocery store, she starts writing ‘Anti Lynching’ articles, which continues for a big part of her life.
She visits Chicago to attend the Columbian Exposition in 1893. WELLS PUBLICLY CHALLENGED THE ORGANIZERS OF THE 1893 WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. Writes and distributes thousands of copies of her pamphlet ‘ The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World’s Columbian Exposition‘, with encouragement from Frederick Douglas.
After a scorching article on anti-lynching, her life was threatened in Memphis, her newspaper offices were attacked. She permanently moved to Chicago in 1894.
