

“Ida B. Wells was a pioneering Black journalist and an activist for women’s rights and the suffrage movement. She was also one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.”
https://idabwellssociety.org/about/our-namesake/
In 2020 she was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize “For her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching.”
https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/ida-b-wells
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