Ida B. Wells was known for her investigative journalism that exposed the systematic killing of Black men in the American South in the 1890s. Born into slavery and orphaned as a teenager, Wells saw firsthand the injustice Black people faced when she was told where to sit on a train. She became a teacher and pointed out discrimination in the education of Black students before becoming a crusading journalist, suffragist, and civil rights activist.
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