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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. 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.

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

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   May 28, 2003 · UPDATED: August 21, 2021 at 5:57 AM CDT. Growing up in the small north Mississippi town of Holly Springs, Leona Harris and her contemporaries had never heard the name of the town’s most...

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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...

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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.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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8. www.pps.net › Page › 18294Library/Media Center / Ida B. Wells-Barnett Resources

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   Ida B. Wells Papers 1884-1976 at the University of Chicago - A thorough collection of documents by and about Ida B. Wells' life and work. Includes speeches, images, articles, and more. Ida B. Wells Barnett Papers at Black Women's Suffrage - Images of primary source documents related to Ida B. Wells. Ida B. Wells and Anti-Lynching Activism at ...