“I’d rather go down in history
as one lone Negro
who dared to tell the government
that it had done a dastardly thing
than to save my skin
by taking back what I said”
~ Ida B. Wells
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931), more commonly known as Ida B. Wells, was an American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, Georgist,and an early leader in the civil rights movement…Source
