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Hace 5 días · The 1892 People's Grocery murders are “what opened my eyes to what lynching really was,” Ida B. Wells later wrote. The MIT Press Reader Coppery like a penny, thick like bad molasses, even a ...
1 de may. de 2024 · Ida B. Wells-Barnett (born July 16, 1862, Holly Springs, Mississippi, U.S.—died March 25, 1931, Chicago, Illinois) was an American journalist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. She later was active in promoting justice for African Americans.
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- Ida Wells was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, on July 16, 1862.
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett first grew to prominence by leading a campaign against lynching, first by writing newspaper columns but later through deliveri...
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a journalist by trade but also spent a lot of her time and energy organizing and participating in various civil rights cam...
- Among Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s achievements were the publication of a detailed book about lynching entitled A Red Record (1895), the cofounding of th...
Hace 2 días · When Ida B. Wells died of kidney disease in 1931 at age 68, she left behind a towering legacy in civil rights and journalism. But she also left a profound personal legacy – one of devotion to family against all odds. Her siblings never forgot the sacrifices Ida made for them. As Alfreda put it, "she was more than a sister, more than a mother ...
18 de may. de 2024 · One thing that I have marveled on in the past few years is the stories of faith that surround the people like Ida B. Wells, Rosa Parks, Ruby Bridges and other civil rights heroes. They faced incredible adversity, but they felt called by their God to stand in truth.
21 de may. de 2024 · “Nowhere in the civilized world save the United States of America do men, possessing all civil and political power, go out in bands of 50 and 5,000 to hunt down, shoot, hang or burn to death a single individual, unarmed and absolutely powerless,” she wrote.
4 de may. de 2024 · Crusading journalist Ida B. Wells, an African-American native of Holly Springs, Mississippi, was riding a train from Memphis to Woodstock, Tennessee, where she worked as a teacher, when a white railroad conductor ordered her to move to another car. She refused.
11 de may. de 2024 · Ida B. Wells: Let the Truth Be Told. Ida B. Wells was an extraordinary woman. Long before boycotts, sit-ins, and freedom rides, Ida B. Wells was hard at work to better the lives of African Americans.
