(1862-1931) Ida B. Wells was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, months before the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. When her parents died in 1880 as a result of a yellow fever plague in Holly Springs, Wells took it upon herself to become a teacher in Holly Springs in order to support her younger siblings. While living in Memphis, Wells became an editor and co-owner of a local black newspaper called "The Free Speech and Headlight." She wrote her editorials under the pen-name "Iola."
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