ida B Wells

True or False

Ida B. Wells was born into as a free person

• True

• False

Where was she born ?

• Holly Springs, MS

• Montgomery, AL

• Selma, AL

• Atlanta, GA

Who was Ida B. Wells

• An Investigative Journalist

• Educator

• Leader in the Civil Rights Movement

• All of the Above

What was she best known for fighting against

• Segregation

• Lynchings

• Slavery

• All of the Above

What does oppress mean?

• to shop until you drop

• to treat someone unfairly

• to be angry

• to cause someone to cry

What did Ida B. Wells' father do in Mississippi?

• Started a school for newly freed Black people

• Opened a newspaper

• Became a lawyer

• Moved to Nashville

What happened to Ida B. Wells' family in 1878?

• They moved to Nashville

• They died of yellow fever

• They started a newspaper

• They won a court case

How much money did Ida win when she took the railroad to court?

• $100

• $200

• $500

• $1000

What did Ida B. Wells report in Black Newspapers?

• For sale ads

• Her thoughts on segregation in schools as wells as other forms of discrimination

• The weather

• Newspaper Cartoons

Why did Ida leave the south?

• A group entered her newspaper press and trashed it.

• Her articles were not popular.

• Nobody was reading her newspapers.

• She was ill and had to be taken care of by family.