When a mob burned Ida B. Wells's printing press, it only amplified her voice into a global crusade. This episode traces the investigative journalist and civil rights pioneer from enslavement at birth to international leadership.

We follow her orphaning at 16, her train-car lawsuit, the People's Grocery lynching of her friend Thomas Moss, her data-driven pamphlets exposing lynching's real motives, and her British speaking tours that applied economic pressure on the American South.

• Becoming her siblings' sole provider at 16
• Her lawsuit after being dragged from a first-class train car
• The People's Grocery lynching that sparked her crusade
• Compiling lynching data from white newspapers in Southern Horrors and A Red Record
• Her British anti-lynching tours and later Chicago activism