Ida B. Wells was a woman committed to a reason, a reason to counteract a huge number of individuals from being killed by lynching. Lynching is characterized as to go rogue and execute somebody in discipline for a wrongdoing or an assumed wrongdoing. As indicated by the document Race Woman it conveys that "Although the practices of lynching had a long history elsewhere... the accused were black and the mobs white” (Dubois, pg. 353). In 1892, three of her companions were fiercely killed amid a lynching. This one specific occasion opened the eyes of Wells and incited her to make a move. According to the document "Race Woman" it says "Her goal was to expose and publicize the mistreatment of her people" (Dubois, pg.353). After the Civil War, blacks
