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Black and white advert for "A Lecture" with Miss Ida B. Wells. Includes a portrait of Wells and text about the lecture.
Washington Bee ad for Ida B. Wells' lecture at Metropolitan A.M.E. Church.

Ida B. Wells-Barnett begins her anti-lynching campaign.

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Washington Bee ad for Ida B. Wells' lecture at Metropolitan A.M.E. Church.

After one of her friends is lynched, Wells-Barnett turns her attention to white mob violence. She begins doing investigative reporting on why Black men are lynched. After publishing her first exposé on lynching, she is violently attacked and run out of town in Memphis, Tennessee. From there, she will continue to pursue her anti-lynching campaign in Chicago.