Ida B. Wells began her activism by suing Chesapeake & Ohio Southwestern Railroad after being forced off a train for refusing to move to a segregated car. She also wrote for Black newspapers about educational disparities. When a friend and his colleagues were lynched in 1892, Wells began to investigate the systematic lynching and other subjugation of members of the Black community. She won praise from Frederick Douglass, but her newspaper offices were destroyed by a white mob.
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