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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...
Sep 29, 2024 · Ida B. Wells-Barnett 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 and founded (1910) what was possibly the first Black women’s suffrage group, Chicago’s Alpha Suffrage Club.
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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...
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931) was an American investigative journalist, sociologist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). [1]
Aug 2, 2018 · Journalist Ida B. Wells was already out of town when she realized that an editorial she’d written had caused a riot. In 1892, Wells had left Memphis to attend a conference in Philadelphia,...
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May 23, 2024 · How the Murder of a Black Grocery Store Owner and His Colleagues Galvanized Ida B. Wells’ Anti-Lynching Crusade. The saga of People’s Grocery stands as a powerful reminder of the centrality...
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.
