Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 - March 25, 1931)

Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a teacher. She accomplished many things in her lifetime including leading a national campaign against lynching, founding a Memphis newspaper, lecturing, protesting the exclusion of Blacks from the World's Columbian Exposition in 1894, and founding the Alpha Suffrage Club of Chicago. She also marched in Washington, D.C. in 1913 and in Chicago in 1916 in the suffrage parades. Her pen name was "Iola". She refused to give up her seat for the colored section in a train car and sued the railroad in the 1880s.