Ida B. Wells Investigates Elaine Massacre; Publishes 'The Arkansas Race Riot'

Ida B. Wells-Barnett, who had pioneered anti-lynching journalism since the 1890s, continued active organizing into the 1920s. She investigated the 1919 Elaine Massacre, writing 'The Arkansas Race Riot' documenting that it was a white attack on Black sharecroppers who had organized. She founded the Alpha Suffrage Club organizing Black women's political participation. Wells-Barnett had been marginalized by both the suffrage movement's racism and the NAACP's male leadership despite having founded the modern anti-lynching movement. She died in 1931.