Ida B. Wells is one of the most popular and richest Civil Rights Leader who was born on July 16, 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi, United States. Civil rights leader and women’s rights activist who gained national attention for documenting the groups lynching blacks in the United States.
Together with Frederick Douglass and other black leaders, she organized a black boycott of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, for its failure to collaborate with the black community on exhibits representing African-American life.
She was born to James And Elizabeth Wells. She married to Ferdinand L. Barnett. She had two sons, Herman and Charles, and two daughters, Alfreda and Ida.
