Today, Google honors "Fearless" Journalist, Ida B. Wells

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Ida B. Wells' 153rd Birthday - www.google.com

She documented lynching in the United States, showing that it was often used as a way to control or punish blacks who competed with whites, rather than being based on criminal acts by blacks, as was usually claimed by white mobs.

She was a journalist, newspaper editor and civil rights activist

Today is Ida B. Wells’ 153rd birthday, and the Google Doodle is celebrating her accordingly with a sketch of the famous journalist and activist sitting at her desk working at a typewriter.

Wells was a journalist and newspaper editor at the turn of the 20th century who documented civil rights abuses and worked toward women’s suffrage. She was editor of two papers in Memphis by the time she was 25, and later moved to Chicago where she ran the Chicago Conservator.

Calling her “fearless and uncompromising,” Google explained its choice to honor her in the Doodle: “We salute Ida B. Wells with a Doodle that commemorates her journalistic mettle and her unequivocal commitment to the advancement of civil liberties.”

http://time.com/3960699/google-doodle-ida-b-wells/

1. She Was Born As a Slave in Mississippi Just Before Emancipation
2. She Refused to Give Up Her Seat to a White Man While on a Train in Memphis (70 years before Rosa Parks)
3. She Began Writing After the Incident on the Train & Led Anti-Lynching Crusades

4. She Helped Start Early Civil Rights Organizations
5. Her Work Has Been Cited As an Example for Today’s Civil Rights Movement
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