An innovator is a person who introduces new methods, ideas, or products. Ida B. Wells, born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, was a daughter of slaves. After the Civil War ended in 1865 and the 13th Amendment was added to the United States Constitution, just like many freed slaves, her family enthusiastically pursued education and business. Wells began teaching and soon found out that being legally equal to whites did not mean being treated equally, She learned this after she paid for a first class train ticket and sat in the car reserved for white ladies and was told to move back which she refused to do, and she was physically dragged from the train as the white passengers applauded. Wells became a journalist after that incident and led an anti-lynching crusade, as well as forming groups fighting for African-American justice. Ida B. Wells affected America culturally by informing the public about racial and women rights, psychologically by changing how individual’s thought about …show more content…
Wells was a large innovator of equality in the culture. While working as a journalist, she also kept a job at a segregated public school in Memphis which caused her to write about the condition of the blacks only schools in the city which later got her fired from teaching. Her actions with forming the anti-lynching campaign and National Association of Colored Women made an impact on the culture and the way life was previous to her actions. Wells was an innovator that was passionate about her ideals but also had to work her way up to have anyone listen to her. In an interview she once said, “It is extremely rough to follow my goal, but I felt a responsibility to show the world what the Americans are facing through this rough patch” (Wells). It is through hard-work and determination that Ida B. Wells surfaced as an influential leader of the innovation of equality and showing America ideas that would lead to it becoming a better