Wells and W. E. B. Du Bois
The lives of W. E. B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells often ran along parallel tracks. Both used their journalistic writing to condemn lynching. Wells and Du Bois seemed to disagree on the story of why Wells’ name did not appear on the original list of NAACP founders. Du Bois implied that Wells had chosen not to be included. However, in her autobiography, Wells complains that Du Bois deliberately excluded her from the list.
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