Lynn Wells

Lynn Wells was a civil rights activist in Atlanta, Georgia during the 1960s and was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC), and then a national leader of Students for a Democratic Society and the Revolutionary Youth Movement in the late 1960s.

Today, She is now the Director of the Cooleemee Historical Association and the mayor of Cooleemee, North Carolina.