What was Ida B Wells main contribution to social science?

Answer 1

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett gained a national reputation in the 1890s as a pioneering crusader against lynching. Her long career spanned a wide variety of venues, including schoolroom, settlement house, municipal court, electoral politics, home, church, and social club. Journalism, however, was her calling. Her publications, many of them too militant or sharply worded to find a substantial receptive audience, remain her greatest legacy.

Answer 2

Ida B. Wells was a famous Black activist born in 1862. She is famous for her activism and her writing. She first came to some notice when she sued a rail road company for trying to force her to sit in the Jim Crow (segregated) car. She was eventually physically thrown off the train. Unfortunately she lost the case.

She also owned her own newspaper. It was burned down and she was run out of Memphis, TN on threat of lynching for criticizing the white racists in the town who murdered three of her friends, Black business owners who took business away from white owners. The men were falsely accused of raping white women, an excuse often use to lynch Black men at that time. When she chastised whites for their brutality towards Blacks and mentioned the fact that white men tended to rape black women with no repercussions rather than the reverse, she was threatened with death.

She eventually moved to Chicago where she was a journalist, social worker, and helped to found the NAACP.

She died as an activist, wife and mother in 1931.

Answer 3

Ida B. Wells was a great Women in History.

Answer 4

Ida B. Wells started the movement to end segregation in public transportation, which she did not live to see the results. However, Rosa Parks finished Wells' work and ended the segregation.