Called one of the many radicals in her time. Ida B. Wells was no silent woman. Born in 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi, as one of seven kids to two former slaves. She was left to tend to her younger sisters after Yellow fever killed both of her parents and some of her siblings. In order to care for her siblings, she secured a job as a teacher, and eventually moved to Memphis to live with her aunt. It was here in Memphis, Tennessee that Wells literally fought for racial and gender justice. It was in 1884 that Wells had a runin with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company where she refused to give up her seat to a white person and be seated in the "Jim Crow" car. She was forcefully removed from the train, and as soon as her foot hit the soil of Memphis she hired an attorney to sue the railroad comapany. She won her case in the local circut courts, and won, but the railroad company appealed to the Supreme Court and had the case lowered. This ignited her carrer as a journalist, and gained her the partnership in the Free Speech and Headlight. Here she spoke through words on lynching and the many ways of blacks gaining equality. In 1895 she was married, and in 1909 became one of the founding members of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. (NAACP). This making her one of the few to oppose Booker T. Washington and his ways on becoming equal. In 1931 Wells died, leaving behind a legacy of justice crusades.