Ida B. Wells was born in 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi, to Elizabeth and James Wells. She is famous for her campaign against lynching. Ida set an example for all African Americans to stand up for their rights in the late 1800s. Through her tireless work to expose the horrors of lynching, she almost single-handedly attacked and launched the beginning of the movement for civil rights and without it; there would have been a late start to basic rights for African-Americans (men or women). Ultimately, his work inspired a sense that every American can and should exercise their civil rights and responsibilities to make our country a better and more equal place to live. Ida B. Wells had a difficult childhood. Her parents were enslaved before the Civil War, but they still managed to make ends meet as her mother worked as a cook and her father as a skilled carpenter. Ida was the eldest of eight children. When a yellow fever epidemic swept through Holly Springs, killing Ida's mother, father and little brother, Stanley, but fortunately for Ida, her parents gave her very good leadership skills which she used to look after and manage the rest of her six younger siblings after her. the death of parents. She got a job as a schoolteacher attended by local African Americans. Through this job, she was able to support herself by working for $25.00 per month. She then moved to Memphis Tennessee for a better paying job while being cared for by her Aunt Fannie and her friends and other family members looked after her younger siblings. While Ida was in Memphis, she began fighting for gender and racial justice. While Ida was on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company train, the conductor asked her to move to the "Jim Crow" car, which was essential...... middle of paper ..... .that these 7 incredible African Americans helped create today. Wagner, Bryan. Disturbing the peace Black culture and police power after slavery. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. Print.Annotation: This book is about Ida B. Wells's interactions with other people. “We will overcome.” We will win. Np, and Web. October 13, 2015. .Annotation: This website is about Ida but also about the civil rights movement and everything it did to make white people understand that we are all human. Wideman, John Edgar. My Soul Deepened: Classics of Early African American Literature. Philadelphia: Running Press, 2001. Print.Annotation: This DVD provides valuable information about the life of Ida B. Wells through interviews and narration. Along with other important players in the civil rights movement.