Ida B. Wells

The most dangerous problem for African Americans was lynching, murder by a mob without a trial, often by hanging. In 1892 about 230 people were lynched in the United States. Most of these people were African Americans, killed by groups of angry whites. Leading the antilynching movement was Ida B. Wells.
Ida B. Wells was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, in 1863 to enslaved parents. When she was 14 her parents died of yellow fever and being the oldest child, s...