Ida B. Wells, a highly gifted writer and civil rights activist, has been honored with a Google Doodle.
July 16 marks the 153rd birthday of the fearless intellectual who was already editor of two papers by the age of 25: the Memphis-based Free Speech and Headlight.
In 1884, a 22-year-old Wells was asked to move out of her seat for a white man by a conductor of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company.
She refused. Check out the rest of the story here.
