🗓#OTD, the legendary Ida B. Wells was born. Born enslaved in 1862, Wells is remembered for her vocal critiques of racist violence, her leadership in multiple civil rights organizations, and tireless fight to end lynching in the U.S. 🎥She the People: Votes for Women | Smithsonian Channel

Journalist and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells was also a leader in the fight for women's suffrage. She founded the Alpha Suffrage Club to advocate for women's rights and to push for the election of African Americans. Wells traveled the South and gathered records in a decades-long campaign against lynching that made its horrors known nationwide. Her quote, "The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them," comes from her book, "The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching