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1. www.nytimes.com › overlooked-ida-b-wellsIda B. Wells, Who Took on Racism in the Deep South With ...

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   Mar 8, 2018 · 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 of a...

2. blackandeducation.org › stories › 2017/3/4Ida B. Wells-Barnett: A Voice Crying Out for Change

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   Mar 5, 2017 · In September of 1900 Ida B. Wells stopped the project she was working on to report on the outrageous actions that took place in New Orleans in July of that year. Robert Charles was an African-American man who had an encounter with police, while sitting on the steps of a building with his friend, one night.

3. www.amacad.org › person › ida-b-wells-barnettIda B. Wells-Barnett | American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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   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.

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5. www.southerncultures.org › article › remembering-idaRemembering Ida, Ida Remembering - Southern Cultures

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   Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Crusader for Justice Created for Southern Cultures by Deborah Gardner, Amari Pollard, and Emily Sutton (Hussman School of Journalism and Media, UNC-CH). Not all freedpeople were able to escape resentful former owners—or resist a tempting offer.

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6. www.chicagotribune.com › 2003/05/28 › familyFamily, admirers keep Ida B. Wells’ legacy alive – Chicago ...

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   May 28, 2003 · Family, admirers keep Ida B. Wells’ legacy alive. By Chicago Tribune. UPDATED: August 21, 2021 at 5:57 AM CDT. Growing up in the small north Mississippi town of Holly Springs, Leona Harris and...

7. www.hfchronicle.com › 2024/03/16 › keeping-ida-bKeeping Ida B. Wells’ legacy alive: A conversation with ...

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   Mar 16, 2024 · by Eric Crump on March 16, 2024. Note: Michelle Duster, great-granddaughter of famed journalist and suffragist Ida B. Wells-Barnett, was the keynote speaker at Homewood-Flossmoor High School’s Pursuing the Dream event, an annual tribute to the work of Martin Luther King Jr. She spoke with the Chronicle on Jan. 23, the day before the event.

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   Who was Ida Belle Wells-Barnett?

   • Born enslaved in 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi, about a half hour north of Oxford, Ida Belle Wells-Barnett stands as one of the most outstanding women of the twentieth century. A journalist, anti-lynching advocate, suffragist, activist, and progressive theorist, she called out injustice and then urged Americans to resist oppression.

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   What would a Holly Springs tour tell us about Wells-Barnett's early life?

   • The tour would cover Wells-Barnett’s early life in Holly Springs and use the existing landscape to tell more inclusive public history narratives. Kruse, a doctoral candidate in the Arch Dalrymple III Department of History, served as the primary graduate student researcher.

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   Who was Jim Wells enslaved?

   • In 1860, Morgan, Jim Wells’s enslaver and father, apprenticed his nineteen-year-old son to Boling, a carpenter who arrived in Holly Springs in the late 1840s. Within a decade, Boling earned a reputation as a master builder. When Morgan died, Wells remained the property of Morgan’s widow while she continued to hire him out to Boling.

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   Where did Jim Wells grow up?

   • Wells grew up with his enslaved mother and siblings on Morgan Wells’s plantation in Tippah County, east of Marshall County. In 1860, Morgan, Jim Wells’s enslaver and father, apprenticed his nineteen-year-old son to Boling, a carpenter who arrived in Holly Springs in the late 1840s. Within a decade, Boling earned a reputation as a master builder.

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9. www.thehumanityarchive.com › articles › ida-b-wellsIda B. Wells: The Fearless Crusader and Voice Against Lynching

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   May 11, 2023 · Ida B. Wells was a tireless advocate for women's suffrage. Her commitment to gender equality was as strong as her dedication to racial justice. She consistently fought for the rights of all women to vote, using her journalistic skills and personal influence to amplify her message.