Women’s rights and suffrage were also focuses of Wells’s advocacy. Her investigations and research culminated in the 1895 publication of The Red Record, a 100-page pamphlet that detailed the prevalence of lynching in America. She extensively documented 728 lynching cases between 18. In Chicago, she continued reporting, organizing, and advocating for civil rights and women’s rights. She didn’t let her move deter her from her fight against lynching. The last straw, and what ultimately brought her to Chicago, was the lynching of three good friends and store owners of People’s Grocery Company in 1892. After her writing was disseminated nationally, a racist mob burned down her office. She called out how horrible the practice of lynching was and how it was used as a fear tactic to keep African Americans from gaining success and equality. While in Memphis, Wells also attended sessions at Fisk University and LeMoyne-Owen College, both HBCUs.ĭuring her time in the South, Wells wrote for her pamphlet, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in all its Phases, where she covered the lynching (the murdering of folks, usually hanged, without due process and legal trial) of Black bodies. She bought a share in the newspaper and became the first female co-owner and editor of a Black newspaper in the United States. She went on to become a teacher in Memphis, Tennessee, while also covering racial segregation and inequalities through the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight newspaper. After gaining their freedom, Wells’s father became a trustee of Shaw College (now Rust College), which is the same Historically Black College/University (HBCU) that Wells graduated from. Wells came from educated and political parents. She was born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi, and gained her freedom through the Emancipation Proclamation. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) was a Black female journalist, teacher and civil rights leader. Style: Row houses, mid rises and high rises Location: Bronzeville, 35th- 39th, Cottage Grove to Martin Luther King Blvd.
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