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May 23, 2024 · Ida B. Wells sat firmly while the Memphis streetcar man gripped her body and tried to forcibly remove her from the first-class ladies car on a train from the Poplar Station to northern Shelby...
Sep 29, 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- 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...
Aug 2, 2018 · Death threats drove Wells from Memphis, but she was not silenced and would find her home in Chicago.
- Becky Little
Wells died on March 25, 1931, in Chicago, and in 2020 was posthumously honored with a Pulitzer Prize special citation "for her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching." [6] Early life. The Bolling–Gatewood House.
Mar 8, 2018 · 1862-1931. Ida B. Wells. Took on racism in the Deep South with powerful reporting on lynchings. By CAITLIN DICKERSON. It was not all that unusual when, in 1892, a mob dragged Thomas Moss out...
Mar 10, 2020 · Ida B. Wells was an African American civil rights leader who took advantage of the photograph’s supposed ability to tell the truth. Having been exposed to the effects of lynching photographs in newspapers, she recognized the photo’s ability to both perpetuate and destabilize racial boundaries.
Photograph of Ida B. Wells wearing a button she created to publicize a memorial service for African-American combatants court-marshalled and hanged in Houston, TX in the summer of 1917. The button reads “In Memoriam Martyred Negro Soldiers Dec. 11, 1917."
