Chicago’s First Monument to a Black Woman Will Commemorate Anti-Lynching and Suffrage Activist Ida B. Wells.

"Later in life, Wells went on to become a journalist and used her work in publishing as a means to investigate and write extensive reports on lynching in America...Wells fought to end sexual as well as racial discrimination, though white suffragists often treated her unfairly. In one 1913 march for women's suffrage, white leaders asked Wells to walk in the back of the group on account of her race, but she refused...."