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Ida was one of two women who signed “the call” for the formation of the NAACP. She was a religious woman who read the Bible regularly, read Shakespeare and loved classical music. In recent years, her hometown honored her legacy by naming the post office the Ida B. Wells Station, and a postage stamp was issued by the U. S. Postal Service commemorating her crusade for human rights.
May 4, 2020 · Ida B. Wells was born a slave in Mississippi in 1862. She became a writer and publisher who crusaded against lynching and for civil rights in the deep South after the Civil War.
Mar 24, 2021 · Ida B. Wells, born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi, had made it her mission to raise awareness of the brutal ramifications of the lynch law in the Southern States of America. This special blog will explore how Wells was received in Britain, and how the press of the time reported on her quest to raise awareness of the horrors of lynching being enacted at that time.
May 8, 2020 · This week, Ida B Wells finally won a Pulitzer Prize. Since she’s been dead for 89 years, you could certainly say it was long overdue. Wells won the top award in American journalism for being, in ...
May 11, 2021 · Ida B. Wells. Ida B. Wells was an African-American journalist and early civil rights activist. Her activism began when she led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. She would go on to be a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909 and remained active in the movement ...
Jul 6, 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 ...
Apr 5, 2022 · Ida B. Wells was a famous figure during her life but is only now becoming known in the U.S. Her great-grandaughter, Michelle Duster, has worked to keep the memory of her relative alive.
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