Ida B. Wells-Barnett, who was investigative journalist, is known for documenting lynchings of African Americans in 20th century
Among those 20th century journalists was Ida B. Wells-Barnett, who took on the task of documenting the lynchings of African Americans throughout the country in “Red Record: Lynchings in the United States” and “Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.”“Ida had a price put on her head in Memphis,” said Tiana Ferrell, Wells-Barnett’s great-granddaughter. “She was run out of the city of Memphis for telling the truth there.
Wells-Barnett was born in Mississippi and moved to Memphis, Tennessee, after her parents died and moved to Chicago, Illinois, following death threats. Among the history makers, Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, and Jacksonville’s very own civil rights activist, A. Phillip Randolph, each met with Wells-Barnett for activism. In a book written by Alfreda Duster, Wells-Barnett’s daughter, she recalled:
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