Who fought for progressive reforms by writing articles about the horrors of lynching in the south?

Ida B. Wells

Explanation:

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, more often referred to as Ida B. Wells, was an African-American investigative journalist. She was also an educator. Ida was an early leader in the civil rights movement and was known for documenting many cases of lynching in the South.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion