The fight against lynching!
The murder of her friends drove Wells to research and document lynchings and their causes. She began journalism by looking at the charges given for murders. She also officially started her anti-lynching campaign. She spoke on the issue at various black women’s clubs, and raised more than $500 to investigate lynchings and publish her results. Ida B. Wells found that blacks were lynched for such reasons as failing to pay debts, not appearing to give way to whites, competing with whites economically, and being drunk in public
W. E. B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells.
Wells often ran along parallel tracks. They Both used their journal writing to try to stop lynching. Ida B. Wells and W. E. B. Du Bois disagreed on the story of why her name did not appear on the original list of NAACP founders. Du Bois said that Wells had chosen not to be included. But, in her autobiography, Wells complains that Du Bois deliberately excluded her from the list
