I am writing my reaction paper on Ida B. Wells, one of the early leaders of the civil rights movement. Ida was born July 16, 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi, where she was born a slave. Ida was also active in the women's rights and women's suffrage movement. She was a leader who was not afraid to speak out about what she believed in and who spoke out for the rights of all African Americans. When he was fourteen, tragedy struck his family: yellow fever spread throughout Holly Springs, killing his parents and younger siblings. It was from there that Ida had to grow up and take on the responsibility of keeping the rest of her family together and also fighting for the civil rights of African Americans from a young age. When Wells moved to Memphis to live with her aunt so she could take care of her and her siblings, that's when Ida really had to start fighting for justice with their race and gender. One of the biggest fights she had to go through was with the conductor of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, where she was asked to give up her seat to a white man and was told asked to sit down....