Civil Rights in the Trump Era Teach-Out

Ida B. Wells (1862-1891)

Ida B. Wells was an African-American journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. Wells was born into slavery and began an anti-lynching campaign in 1892, traveling around the country and writing in various publications. From 1898 through 1902, Wells was the secretary of the National Afro-American Council, and in 1909 participated in the meeting of the Niagara Movement and the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She founded and became president of the Negro Fellowship League, which aided newly arrived migrants from the South, and founded what may have been the first black woman suffrage group, Chicago’s Alpha Suffrage Club.

Shenell McCrary (Ida B. Wells) is thrilled to be wrapping up her senior year at Michigan, to then pursue a successful career in theatre and film.