None of my family was in town, so I didn't want to bug them when they were on vacation. so I did a discussion on Ida B. Wells, in Chapter 8 section 3.
Ida B. Wells was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi in 1862. She was the oldest of 8 children. Her parents died in 1880, so she wanted to become a teacher so she could support off of her siblings. Wells completed her studies at Rust College, and in 1888 Wells became a teacher in Memphis, Tennessee.
While Wells was living in Tennessee, she became an editor and a co-owner of a local black newspaper. The newspaper was called “The Free Speech and Headlights”. She didn’t use her real name when she would write editorials so she used her pen-name “Lola”.
In June 1895, she got married to Ferdinand Barnett. Barnett was a prominent Chicago attorney. Wells-Barnett was very active until she had her second son, Herman. She resigned as the president of the Ida B. Wells club so she could have as much time as she could to spend with her two sons and her two daughters.
In 1909, Wells-Barnett was asked to join the “Committee of 40”, which was an organization known as the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), this organization was the oldest civil rights organization in the country.
Wells-Barnett stayed with this job till she died in 1931.
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