Born into slavery, she took on structural racism and segregation in transportation, and organized boycotts more than a half century before the more popular years of the 1960s civil rights movement. She bravely used the power of her voice and pen to highlight the hypocrisy and injustice ofracial terror lynching’s, and went on to pioneerreporting techniques that remain central tenets of modern journalism. She fought for women’s suffrage, and also fought within the suffrage movement for the voice of black women to be included. Despite great risk to herself, Ida B. Wells Barnett, dedicated her life to shining the “light of truth” on injustice. In this lesson, students will learn about her incredible resistance, agency and activism through participating in a rotating stations activity that utilizes readings, excerpts from a documentary, and discussion questions to highlight some of the most incredible aspects of the career of Ida B. Wells.