1.75". Ida Wells was born in 1862 in Mississippi. While living in Memphis, she became an editor and co-owner of a local black newspaper called "The Freedom Speech And Headlight." When a respected black store owner and friend was lynched in 1892, Wells used her paper to attack the evils of lynching and encouraged the black townspeople of Memphis to go west. She moved to Chicago and formed the Woman's ERA Club, the first civic American organization for African American women. In 1895 Wells published "A Red Record" which recorded race lynching in America. In 1909 she was asked to be a member of the "Committee Of 40." This committee established the ground work for the organization now known as the NAACP. From the Marshall Levin collection with his removable ink notation on the reverse "1990." Metal-covered back with bar pin. One pinpoint dent due to pin in back. Visible only in reflected light. Bright, glossy. Exc.