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  1. Jul 16, 2022 · Ida Bell Wells. Social Reformer. A founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), she was born into slavery, with her family being emancipated in 1865. Her mother, a cook, and her father, a carpenter, were able to provide a good life for their children. When she was sixteen, a yellow fever...

  2. 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...

  3. Apr 1, 2024 · When Ida B. Wells was 16 years old, her parents and a younger sibling died from yellow fever, an epidemic that felled tens of thousands across post-Civil War America.

  4. Dec 18, 2023 · Browse Orleans local obituaries on Legacy.com. Find service information, send flowers, and leave memories and thoughts in the Guestbook for your loved one.

  5. Sep 12, 2020 · Robert Charles and Mob Rule in New Orleans by Ida B. Wells — BLACK and Education. The bloodiest week which New Orleans has know since the massacre of the Italians in 1892 was ushered in Monday, July 24, by the inexcusable and unprovoked assault upon two colored men by police officers of New Orleans.

  6. New Orleans, Aug. 23, 1900. Mrs. Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Dear Madam—It affords me great pleasure to inform you as far as I know of Robert Charles. I have been acquainted with him about six years in this city. He never has, as I know, given any trouble to anyone. He was quiet and a peaceful man and was very frank in speaking.

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  8. Mar 25, 2021 · On March 25, 1931, civil rights activist and journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett died in Chicago. During her career, she documented lynchings in the South, championed universal suffrage and published dozens of articles and pamphlets denouncing racism, classism and misogyny.