Born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, as the oldest of five siblings to enslaved parents, Ida B. Wells moved to Memphis, Tennessee, in the wake of a yellow fever epidemic that killed both of her parents within twenty-four hours of one another.
Accepting an invitation to write about the experience marked the beginning of her career in journalism in which, as she wrote, she “found the real me.” Most significantly, Wells began to investigate lynchings. The number of blacks mob-murdered had been rising since the 1880s, along with charges of what she called the “new crime”: a sudden outbreak of rape of white women by black men.
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