Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Ida B. Wells (1862-1931), born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, was an African-American civil rights advocate, and led a strong cause against lynching. In 1884, she refused to move out of a segregated railroad car, and won a lawsuit against the railroad company for forcibly removing her from her seat, although the Supreme Court overturned the decision in 1887. She died in Chicago, Illinois. In 1895, she published A Red Record, which documented her campaign against lynching. External links Biography from Duke This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.