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On this date in 1862 Ida Wells was born a slave in Holly Springs, Mississippi, to James and Elizabeth (Warrenton) Wells. Ida B. Wells-Barnett is one of eleven prominent Tennesseans depicted in the official Tennessee bicentennial portrait and one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

Also on this date:

1822 Violette A. Johnson was born. Johnson was the first African American woman to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.

1899 Eunice Hunton Carter was born. Carter was an African-American lawyer and the first Black woman to be a district attorney in the state of New York.