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Ida Bell Wells-Barnett July 16, — March 25, was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement.

At the age of 16, she lost both her parents and her infant brother in the yellow fever epidemic. She went to work and kept the rest of the family together with the help of her grandmother.

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Later, moving with some of her siblings to Memphis, Tennesseeshe found better pay as a teacher. Her reporting covered incidents of racial segregation and inequality. In the s, Wells documented lynching in the United States in articles and through her pamphlet called Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in all its Phasesinvestigating frequent claims of Whites that lynchings were reserved for Black criminals only. Wells exposed lynching as a barbaric practice of Whites in the South used to intimidate and oppress African Americans who created economic and political competition—and a subsequent threat of loss of power—for Whites.

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A White mob destroyed her newspaper office and presses as her investigative reporting was carried nationally in Black-owned newspapers. Subjected to continued threats, Wells left Memphis for Chicago. She married Ferdinand L. Barnett in and had a family while continuing her work writing, speaking, and organizing for civil rights and the women's movement for the rest of her life.

Wells was outspoken regarding her beliefs as a Black female activist and faced regular public disapproval, sometimes including from other leaders within the civil rights movement and the women's suffrage movement.

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She was active in women's rights and the women's suffrage movement, establishing several notable women's organizations. A skilled and persuasive speakerWells traveled nationally and internationally on lecture tours. InWells was Juornalism honored with a Pulitzer Prize special citation "[f]or her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching.

James Wells' father was a White man who impregnated an enslaved Black woman named Peggy. Before dying, James' father brought him, aged 18, to Holly Springs to become a carpenter's apprentice, where he developed a skill and worked as a "hired out slave living in town".]