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Born
Ida B. Wells was born a slave in Holly Springs, Mississippi. when ida was six months old Abraham Lincoln passed the Emancipation Proclamation so slaves can be free -
Wells becomes a journalist
When she was 20 years old, she started writing for Black newspapers about segregation and discrimination in the south. -
Wells begins her activism
She got dragged off the train because she refused to go to the black section. She started writing articles about her experience at court and other negative black experiences. -
Wells became a co owner of a newspaper called the Memphis Free Speech
She started writing articles and speaking about lynching in the south. -
Wells office got burned by a white mob
Three black men got killed and that made Ida B. Wells investigate more lynchings. the white citizens of Memphis did not like her articles so they burnt her office. -
Moving to chicago
She moved because the people who burnt her office threatened to hurt her if she came back. -
Wells gets married
Wells meets her husband Ferdinand L. Barnett and has four children: Charles, Herman, Ida Jr., and Alfred. -
Wells fought for civil rights
Wells helped create the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to help stop discrimination -
Wells fought for women's right to vote
She started the Alpha Suffrage Club to teach black women about their rights to vote -
The Death of Ida B. Wells
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett died from kidney disease. -
Wells gets a Pulitzer Prize
"for her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching." -
Ida B. Wells gets a quarter
Wells gets her face on a US quarter for her work on civil rights.