Ida B Wells was an American educator, investigative journalist, and civil rights leader.
- She dedicated her life to combating violence and prejudice and fought for equality for blacks, especially for women. She was born in Holly Springs in Mississippi as a slave in 1862.
- She was one of the founding fathers of the NAACP.
- She is famous for her fearless crusade against lynching in the 1890s and her efforts to expose violence against blacks.
- In the 1890s, she wrote about lynching in the United States and investigated the claims that only black criminals were lynched. She published various books about lynchings.
- She exposed it as a cruel practice used by White Southerners to oppress and threaten the African Americans who created political and economic competition and loss of power for whites.
So A. Proving the victims were innocent is the correct answer
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