Human rights activist Ida B. Wells stared down death and didn’t blink. That’s not a metaphor. She led an anti-lynching movement in Memphis, Tennessee, in the 1890s, but moved to Chicago because of threats to her life. Through her writing, she became a leader in the civil rights movement and was a cofounder of the NAACP. Wells did this at a time before women, especially an African-American woman, had any civil rights, so add suffragist to her list of accomplishments. The play “Miss Ida B. Wells,” by the late playwright and civil rights activist Endesha Ida Mae Holland, will be directed by Nefertiti Burton. It’s staged by UofL’s African American Theatre program in collaboration with Simmons College and the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage.