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<Tab/>Ida B. Wells was a newspaper editor, a journalist, suffragist, women's rights advocate, and speaker who lead the crusade for justice against lynching. She was born on July 16, 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Ida was born a month before the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation that abolished slavery. Ida was the eldest of eight children born to slaves. Her parents supported them because her mother was a famous cook and her …

…she limited her involvement in political activities. The remaining of her career were filled with more writing, activism and organizing. Toward the end of her life she became an activist determined to change the path of poverty and crime in Chicago's inner city. Her work as a writer, social researcher, activist, and organizer mark her as one of the most dynamic and remarkable women of this century. She died in Chicago on March 25, 1931 at age 69.