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Feb 13, 2018 · Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) was an educator, journalist, activist, and author. #biography #blackhistory #history...more.
- 4 min
- 4.9K
- Akhase Organization
Join us in this inspiring video as we delve into the remarkable life and legacy of Ida B. Wells, an iconic journalist, educator, and activist who fought tirelessly for civil rights and...
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- Rondia Kaufer
Ida B. Wells-Barnett - July 16, 1862 - March 25, 1931Journalist, activist, educatorNarrator: Sherri LillianResources:Books: Ida B. the Queen by Michelle Dust...
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- 236
- Onyx Queen Channel
- Lynching
- “I’ll Never Forget”
- Ladylike Or Assertive?
- “One Woman’S Steps to Self-Definition”
- “She Refused to Let Others Define Her”
Lynching was one horrific result. And, often, these murders of blacks — through hanging, shooting,drowning, fire or some combination ofthese and other methods — were committed in the name of racial purity. They were committed frequently because of the white perception/fantasythat a black had tried to rape a white woman, or simply considered the pos...
Wells’s father Jim, for instance, was the mulatto son of a blackslave named Peggy and her white master. The white man was kind to Jim and put him into an apprenticeship as acarpenter, and the master’s wife Miss Polly put up with the awkward situationquietly. Until her husband died. During Wells’s childhood, she found out what happened then whenshe ...
In the aftermath of the Civil War, white society, particularly inthe South, identified black men as sex-crazed, particularly toward white women,while dismissing black women as whores and sluts. In fact, though — as the story of the first half of the life of Wellsshows— many African-Americans modelled themselves of the Victorian white middle-classin...
The title of Davidson’s book, ‘TheySay,’is indicative of the dilemma that blacks faced in the post-warera. Would African-Americans be definedby what they — whites — said? Or wouldblacks have their own say? Davidson writesthat his book isn’t a biography of Wells: And Wells discovered the lynching was at the heart of that reconstruction.
As a young adult, Wells wanted to live a normal life in anabnormal time, but it was not to be: Ida B. Wells is an important figure in American history as achronicler of lynching and a crusader against it. She should be more widely known. ‘TheySay’by James West Davidson does her justice and is a great place tostart learning her story. Patrick T. Rea...
Jan 26, 2021 · In this inspiring and accessible biography, Duster tells the incredible story of Wells’s life, including stories from her childhood in Mississippi, her famous refusal to give up her seat on a ladies’ train car in Memphis, and her later work as a pioneering journalist and anti-lynching crusader.
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- Michelle Duster
Mar 1, 2021 · Book review of Michele Duster's Ida B the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B Wells (2021) which goes beyond biography and history as it explores the lasting legacy that continues to shape our world today.
Mar 1, 2008 · Author Philip Dray tells the inspirational story of Ida B. Wells, from her birth into a slave family in Mississippi and her early encounters with racism to her lifelong commitment to end injustice.
