Back to School Memphis’ cultural imprint on America didn’t start with STAX Records nor end with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Before the turn of the century, a mighty little lady named Ida B. Wells made Memphis her home. And while she lived here, she just so happened to be fighting for civil an d Black women’s rights in America.  Wells and her commitment to civil rights, voting rights and progressive politics are memorialized in Downtown Memphis at the recently revamped and re-opened Ida B. Wells Plaza at the East end of Beale Street.  ...read more read less