Ida B. Wells

What is lynching?

• A mob killing someone without trial

• Hanging someone

• How African Americans were controlled or punished

• A mob killing someone

What organization did Ida B. Wells co-found?

• National Advancement of African Americans

• National Association of Women

• Alcoholics Anonymous

• National Association for the advancement of Colored People

What books did Wells write?

• The Damage of Lynching

• Southern Horrors

• The Red Record

• Unjust Justice

Where was she born?

• Jackson, Mississippi

• Holly Springs, Mississippi

• Vicksburg, Mississippi

• Natchez, Mississippi

What moniker did she write under?

• Iola

• I.B. Wells

• Lola

• Señor Cruz

Why do you think Ida B. Wells was important?

Why was she controversial?

• Challenged notions of white supremacy

• Kept her maiden name

• Spread awareness on the horrors of lynching

• Was an African American woman

• Married Ferdinand Barnett