Ida

b. wells was forced to flee the south because she:

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an African-American educator, investigative reporter and one of the earliest leaders of the civil rights movement.

During the decade of the 1890's, when recording for the Memphis Free Speech and, a journal she co-owned, Ida Bell documented lynching as a method to regulate and exercise control over the Black community. Her work publishers were slain by a white mob after the printing, and following continuous warnings, she was compelled to leave the South and migrate to Chicago.

Wells was forced to move from Memphis to Chicago because of threats after she exposed lynching as a barbaric practice used by whites