Ida B. Wells Continues National Anti-Lynching Campaign

Ida B. Wells-Barnett continued her groundbreaking anti-lynching campaign throughout the early 1900s, publishing data-driven investigations, speaking nationally, and lobbying Congress for federal anti-lynching legislation. Her 1900 pamphlet "Mob Rule in New Orleans" documented the violence surrounding the Robert Charles case and kept national attention on racial terror. Wells was a co-founder of the NAACP in 1909 and remains the most influential anti-lynching activist in American history.