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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 -
When she was 20 years old, she started writing for Black newspapers about segregation and discrimination in the south. -
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. -
She started writing articles and speaking about lynching in the south. -
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. -
She moved because the people who burnt her office threatened to hurt her if she came back. -
Wells meets her husband Ferdinand L. Barnett and has four children: Charles, Herman, Ida Jr., and Alfred. -
Wells helped create the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to help stop discrimination -
She started the Alpha Suffrage Club to teach black women about their rights to vote -
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett died from kidney disease. -
"for her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching." -
Wells gets her face on a US quarter for her work on civil rights.