#BecauseOfHerStory we lift as we climb. This Women’s History Month, get to know Ida B. Wells, a tireless advocate for Black equality. Her story is featured on She the People: Votes for Women. https://bit.ly/31Mo3bR #WomenDoingTheWork | Smithsonian Channel

Today we remember the legacy of journalist Ida B. Wells who passed on this day in 1931. Born into slavery, she fought to obtain an education and expose racial injustices in the 1890s. Her crusading work to investigate and publicize lynchings called public attention to the critical issue. #BecauseOfHerStory Read more about her life story, and see her stately portrait, over at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution site: https://s.si.edu/2ECvdF3 | Smithsonian Channel

2.3K views · 19 reactions | Ida B. Wells: Journalist, activist, and suffragette. She led an anti-lynching crusade over 100 years ago. Join us all month long as Channel 3 celebrates #BlackHistoryMonth. | WFSB - Channel 3 Eyewitness News | Facebook