Ida B. Wells And James Baldwin

Ida B. Wells and James Baldwin were two activists who suggested strategies that advocated for social change. Although they were active during different centuries, they both utilized their writing, describing their experiences to promote equality in the communities they were a part of. Highlighting Wells’ and Baldwin’s experiences and arguments is important to discuss because they were key figures during the fight for civil rights. Although both civil rights activists utilized their creative writing ability to fight for justice, their writing types transcended different outcomes. In other words, Wells and Baldwin describes their encounters with racism and discrimination in several ways.

Ida B. Wells was a young African American woman when her activism began. She was a journalist, leader of an anti-lynching crusade and one of the founders of the National Association of Colored Peoples (NAACP). In her early life, she was on board a train and the train conductor ordered Wells to get up from the first class car and move to the smoking car that was crowed. She refused and three men, including the conductor dragged her off the train. She hired a black attorney to help her sue the railroad company, but he was paid off, causing her to hire a white attorney. She won her case and was rewarded five

For example, in his writing, The Fire Next Time contains two essays that describe his own experiences with discrimination and what it meant to be black. Several personal incidences and episodes of racism influenced his efforts politics. Experiencing this discrimination influenced his decision to move to Paris which freed Baldwin to “write more about his personal and racial background” (Biography Editors). The commute allowed him to deal with that fact that he was the grandson of a slave and also a