In honor of Black History Month, 16 WAPT News is recognizing Mississippi trailblazers, including Ida B. Wells-Barnett.She was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi in 1862. Wells was born into slavery, ...
She changed her last name to Wells-Barnett and continued to write more articles and pamphlets about lynchings and race riots with the hope that the violence would stop. Ida B. Wells-Barnett with ...