Ida Bell Wells was the first African-American woman to be a paid correspondent for a mainstream white newspaper.

 

 Ida Bell Wells-Barnett 

 (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931)

In 1894, before leaving the US for her second visit to Great Britain, Wells called on William Penn Nixon, the editor of the Daily Inter-Ocean, a Republican newspaper in Chicago. 

It was the only major white paper that persistently denounced lynching.^[34] After she told Nixon about her planned tour, he asked her to write for the newspaper while in England.^[35] 

 She was the first African-American woman to be a paid correspondent for a mainstream white newspaper.^[36]



Wells toured England, Scotland and Wales for two months, addressing audiences of thousands,^[37] and rallying a moral crusade among the British.[38