Discovering Heroes -- Why was Wells' name excluded from the original list of founders of the NAACP.?

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett 

 (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931)

African-American leadership

The 19th century's acknowledged leader for African-American civil rights, Frederick Douglass praised Wells' work, giving her introductions and sometimes financial support for her investigations. 

When he died in 1895, Wells was perhaps at the height of her notoriety, but many men and women were ambivalent or against a woman taking the lead in black civil rights at a time when women were not seen as, and often not allowed to be, leaders by the wider society.^[44]

 For the new leading voices, Booker T. Washington, his rival, W. E. B. Du Bois, and more traditionally minded women activists, Wells often came to be seen as too radical.^[45]

  Wells encountered and sometimes collaborated with the others, but they also had many disagreements, while also competing for attention for their ideas and programs.

 For example, there are differing in accounts for why Wells' name was excluded from the original list of founders of the NAACP.

 In his autobiography Dusk of Dawn, Du Bois implied that Wells chose not to be included.^[46] 

However, in her autobiography, Wells stated that Du Bois deliberately excluded her from the list.^[47]