A pioneering journalist and anti-lynching crusader who fought racial injustice through investigative reporting.
“In 1883, Wells boarded a train on her way to her teaching job near Memphis. The Civil Rights Act of 1875 had been overturned by the Supreme Court, and post-Civil War Reconstruction had ended several years earlier. Wells had a first-class ticket for the “ladies car,” but the conductor asked her to move to the “smoking car,” where Black passengers sat. Wells refused.” What ensued was similar to what is happening in 2026; she was yanked, pulled, pushed, and removed from the train.
What’s happening on the streets of America is as old as the country itself. It is individuals, Americans like Ida B. Wells, and many more, who continue to stand up to White supremacy, capitalism, and hate.
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