Ida Bell Wells--- investigative reporting was carried nationally in black-owned newspapers.

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett 

 (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931) 

 In the 1890s, Wells documented lynching in the United States through her indictment called "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in all its Phases," investigating frequent claims of whites that lynchings were reserved for black criminals only. 

Wells exposed lynching as a barbaric practice of whites in the South used to intimidate and oppress African Americans who created economic and political competition—and a subsequent threat of loss of power—for whites.

 A white mob destroyed her newspaper office and presses as her investigative reporting was carried nationally in black-owned newspapers.