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    • [PDF File]Civil Disobedience, Social Justice, Nationalism & Populism, Violent ...

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      Ida B. Wells was born a slave in Holly Springs, Mississippi, on July 16, 1862. When her parents and a younger brother died in a yellow fever epidemic in 1878, she accepted the first of several jobs as a rural schoolteacher to help support her six younger brothers and sisters. Success as a freelance writer


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      Ida B. Wells, president of the club in 1895, was a representative at the Boston meeting called by the leading Negro women of the Country. The club was again repre- scnted in 1896 at the meeting in Washington, D. C., when the National Association of Colored NVomen became a permanent organ- ization. The Ida B. Wells Woman's Club was a


    • 'Why Don't I Know about These Women?': The Integration of Early ... - JSTOR

      Potter Webb, Marianne Weber, Ida B. Wells, Anna Julia Cooper, Jane Addams, the women of the Chicago School, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Rose Hum Lee, and Helen Hughes. We ended the semester with stu-dents presenting research papers on the work of contemporary women sociologists. The purpose of the course was to uncover the contributions made by ...


    • [PDF File]Long-Form Teacher’s Guide for Ida B. Wells: Let the Truth Be Told by ...

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      Ida B. Wells worked bravely as an activist, educator, writer, journalist, suffragist, and pioneering voice against the horrors of lynching. An inspiration for generations of civil rights crusaders, Wells' own words are used throughout this picture book biography (which is based on Ida B. Wells’ autobiography, The Crusade for Justice) to introduce


    • [PDF File]Ida B. Wells, Consider the Facts (1899)

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      Ida B. Wells, "Consider the Facts" (1899) This document was written by Ida B. Wells and published in the Atlanta Journal and the Atlanta Constitution. In it, Wells outlined lynch law in Georgia and chronicled a six-week period in the South. Wells also included Detective Louis P. Le Vin's full report of his investigation into the


    • [PDF File]Red Record individual lives I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings A Red ...

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      Anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett recognized lynching as an attack not only against individuals, but as a dehumanizing act of mob violence against the peoplehood of African Americans. Thus, whenever possible, Wells named the victims of racist violence and told their stories. In this lesson, students will consider how racial violence ...


    • [PDF File]Famous Speeches: Ida B. Wells, “Lynching, Our National Crime” (1909)

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      Editor’s Note: Ida B. Wells was a leading figure in the anti-lynching campaign in the United States beginning in the 1890s. Wells later became a co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The following speech was delivered by Wells at the National Negro Conference in New York City in 1909.


    • Embodying Segregation: Ida B. Wells and the Cultural Work of Travel

      1893 and 1894, Wells draws on the general tropes of travel and the specific relationship between mobility and subjectivity in black experience to critique US segregation and its resulting vio-lence. This critique appears in the autobiographical account of her 1893 tour and in her column, "Ida B. Wells Abroad," published in


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      By IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT. HE Negro question has been present with the American people in one form or another since the landincr of the Dutch Slaveship at Jamestown, Viro.illia, in 1619. For twelve vears the founders of the Encrlisll colony had indifferentlv sncceede(l in cyettino- permanently established.


    • [PDF File]A People's Biography of by Todd Steven Burroughs - iMWiL!

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      1 Duster, Alfeda M. (ed.) Crusade For Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press): pp. 7-8. Duster, one of the daughters of Ida B. Wells-Barnett and the editor of her mother’s autobiography, described her grandparents in the introduction to their 1970 book, “Her mother was a deeply


    • Ida B. Wells - University of Minnesota

      Ida B. Wells, known as the “Crusader for Justice,” was born in Holy Springs, Mississippi on July 16, 1862. Her mother, Elizabeth Warrenton Wells, a cook, and her father, a carpenter, had eight children, Ida being the eldest. Slavery ended the following year when Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.


    • [PDF File]Ida B. Wells - University of Virginia

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      Ida B. Wells activist, journalist “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” Background Information Born: July 16, 1862 Death: March 25, 1931 Ida B. Wells was born into slavery to parents James and Lizzie Wells in 1862. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued shortly after her birth and soon freed her family.


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      tion for Ida B. Wells’s life work as a teacher, journalist, anti-lynch - ing activist, community organizer, and woman suffragist. Ida Bell Wells was born a slave in 1862 in the small city of Holly Springs, Mississippi. After emancipation, her father became active in the Republican Party, the party of Lincoln, during the Reconstruction period in


    • VARIOUS, BEAUTIFUL, AND TERRIBLE: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF IDA B. WELLS ...

      LEGACY OF IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT1 HOLLIE PICH University of Sydney ABSTRACT: The erasure of influential black leader Ida Wells-Barnett from the historical record is an oft-cited, little studied, phenomenon. While scholars have considered her shifting fate in academic works, her journey from forgotten figure to American icon in public memory has ...


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      to thc Ida B. Wells case.) He baeed his refueal to go into the car upon the ground that it was a smoking—car, and that the foul air of such a car was likely to make him ill. There can be no doubt that the contract of a caBrier of passengers by railway is one not only to furnish the passenger with transportation, but with the comfort of a seat.


    • Teacher's Worksheet Answer Key For Video: Ida B. Wells, A Passion for ...

      Video: Ida B. Wells, A Passion for Justice . 1. What was childhood and family life like for Ida Wells? Bo rn in slavery in. 1862 Mississippi. Father was son of white master and slave mother; mother sold into slavery in Mississippi-beaten by slave owners. Ida's parents got married again after war, family commitment. Ida went to school with her ...


    • [PDF File]THE REASON WHY

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      BY IDA B. WELLS "Lynch Law," says the Virginia Lancet, "as known by that appellation, had its origin in 1780 in a combination of citizens of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, entered into for the purpose of suppressing a trained band of horsethieves and counterfeiters whose well concocted schemes


    • [PDF File]“Lynch Law in America” - University of South Florida

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      Ida B. Wells, “Lynch Law in America”, January 1900 5 Created for Lit2Go on the web at etc.usf.edu. This condition of affairs were brutal enough and horrible enough if it were true that lynchings occurred only because of the commission of crimes against women—as is constantly declared by ministers, editors,


    • [PDF File]Lynching - Archives

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      ters were from Ida B. Wells-Barnett—journalist, author, public speaker, and civil rights activist—who received national and international attention for her efforts to expose, educate, and inform the public on the evils and truths of lynching. Lynching remains one of the most disturbing and least understood atrocities in American history ...


    • Miss Ida B. Wells and Memphis Lynching - JSTOR

      woman, from recognizing the significance of a Negro lady, Miss Ida B. Wells. For in the long struggle against lynching in the South, Miss Wells deserves more credit than any other individual, having brought this prac-tice before the eyes of the world and, in so doing, having accelerated the establishment of law and decency in the American South.1


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