Ida is from the Old Germanic id ("work, labor"). **Ida B. Wells (1862-1931)** — born enslaved in Mississippi — became the **pioneering Black American journalist whose meticulous documentation of lynching across the South (*Southern Horrors*, 1892; *The Red Record*, 1895) made it impossible for white America to deny**. **Co-founder of the NAACP** (1909). **Posthumous Pulitzer Prize for journalism (2020)** — "for her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching."
Subject of Mia Bay's *To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells* (2009).
Ida reduces to nine — the number of pioneering Black journalist.