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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...
Aug 2, 2018 · Death threats drove Wells from Memphis, but she was not silenced and would find her home in Chicago. By: Becky Little Updated: May 18, 2023 | Original: August 2, 2018
- 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.
May 23, 2024 · Wells was 29 years old when the mob of white terrorists murdered her friends and destroyed the beloved People’s Grocery.
Sep 29, 2024 · Ida Bell Wells. Born: July 16, 1862, Holly Springs, Mississippi, U.S. Died: March 25, 1931, Chicago, Illinois (aged 68) Founder: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Role In: American civil rights movement.
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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...
When Ida was 16, her family faced a terrible tragedy when her parents and baby brother died of yellow fever. The six remaining Wells children were orphaned, and Ida “suddenly found myself head of a family.” She went to work as a schoolteacher.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an investigative journalist, civil rights advocate, and feminist who led the nation’s first anti-lynching campaign from Memphis, Tennessee, in 1892.
