Ida B Wells Research Paper

Introduction
Ida B. Wells was born a slave in 1862. However she was freed with the rest of her family after the emancipation only 6 months after she was born. Her life was very easy during her first years but then a tragedy struck her family which forced her to mature in an unimaginable way. While living in Memphis she had an incident on a train which urged her to fight for equal justice in all races and genders and then a lynching of some of her close friends made her start an anti-lynching campaign that would eventually lead to her becoming a very prominent figure in the fight for equality in the United States. Early life Ida B. Wells was born in Mississippi to a mother who was a “famous” cook and a father that was a skilled Carpenter. Her parents raised her and eventually 6 other siblings and helped each of them gain an education at Shaw University since they believed an education was very important. Ida also got into politics after her family was freed from slavery because her father joined a political group known as the Loyal

They would terrorize and kill innocent people for any little thing that they would do. A group of 3 men, who were Ida’s friends, opened up a grocery store. It was a terrible mistake because they opened it up across a white owned grocery store. The white men had a “monopoly” in the area and were outraged by the 3 men because they were taking some of their sales. In order to drive them away they started a mob and attempted to raid the store, but the three men fought back and were able to injure 3 white men. The three owners were were sent to jail but were never given a trial, this is because another mob had formed and invaded their jail cells and killed them (McBride). Ida quickly decided to write an article about the lynching and urged all blacks to leave Memphis or risk getting