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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.hpherald.com › evening_digest › almost-a-centuryAlmost a century after her death, Ida B. Wells’ legacy lives on

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   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.

3. societytoday.org › gone-but-not-forgotten-ida-b-wellsGone But Not Forgotten: Ida B. Wells - Society Today

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   Mar 25, 2024 · On the date of Ida B. Wells's death in 1931, we honor this extraordinary woman and her work against racism, sexism, and injustice.

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5. www.smithsonianmag.com › history › how-the-murder-ofHow the Murder of a Black Grocery Store Owner and His ...

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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...

6. www.wbur.org › 2021/03/25 › remembering-ida-b-wellsRemembering Ida B. Wells | Here & Now - WBUR

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   Mar 25, 2021 · Thursday marks the 90th anniversary of the death of Ida B. Wells, a woman with a storied past. A street is named after her in Chicago, and there's a 1990 commemorative stamp from the Postal...

7. 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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   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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   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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   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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9. 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...