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Bridging Hardship, 1928-1945. Ida Bell Wells (1862-1931), one of the most important civil rights advocates of the 19th century, was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, just before the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. She was the first child of James Wells, an apprentice carpenter, and Elizabeth Warrenton, a cook.
12 de feb. de 2020 · The Broad Ax (Salt Lake City, UT), July 14, 1917. In a time of extreme racism and yellow journalism, documenting and speaking the truth about lynchings in the South was a rare and dangerous act. But that did not stop journalist Ida B. Wells. When one of her friends was lynched in Memphis in 1892, she decided she could not let the defamation and ...
31 de mar. de 2023 · Tell students that in class today, they will go back in time to the late nineteenth century to examine the life and choices of an influential anti-lynching activist, Ida B. Wells. This will help them contextualize the choices of Mamie Till-Mobley in the aftermath of her son’s murder, which students explored in the previous lesson.
11 de abr. de 2022 · Michelle Duster, great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells, speaks after President Joe Biden signed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act in the Rose Garden of the White House on March 29. Patrick Semansky ...
16 de jul. de 2015 · Ida B. Wells, who would have turned 153 today, ... Men, not a few, but hundreds, have been lynched for misdemeanors, while others have suffered death for no offense known to the law, ...
Growing Up. Ida B. Wells was not yet three when the Civil War ended and slavery was abolished, so she had no personal memory of being enslaved. But she heard her parents’ stories and saw the scars on her mother’s back from beatings she had suffered. Slavery was a stark reality for Ida, but her own childhood was spent in, and shaped by ...
6 de jul. de 2022 · Ida B. Wells-Barnett died of kidney disease on March 25, 1931, in Chicago, Illinois. Her legacy, both as an advocate for and scholar of social justice, endures today. Her fight to stop violence against people of color, to dismantle racial prejudice, and her analyses on the sociopolitical structures built to keep white men in power, were recognized in 2020 when she was posthumously awarded the ...
