I think that Ida B. Wells-Barnett should have encouraged Black people to defend themselves against racist attacks by the KKK and other terrorists. KKK stands for Ku Klux Klan is a white social club which started in 1866. They started the campaign of terror against African Americans people and with anyone who dared to speak out against them. Many freedmen who were looking for a job in the city were rounded up and transported into the countryside to pick cotton. They were living in fear and pain.…
Ida B. Wells was born a slave in 1862 in Holly Springs, Missouri. She is the oldest daughter of James and Lizzie Wells. The Wells family along with all other slaves were freed six months after Ida’s birth thanks to the Emancipation Proclamation. The Wells family received lots of racial prejudice living in Mississippi. They were restricted by racial rules and practices. James Wells served on the board of trustees for Rust College and made education a priority for his seven children. Ida Wells had to stop attending school at sixteen when tragedy struck her family. Both of her parents and one of her siblings were killed in a yellow fever outbreak. This left Ida in charge of her other siblings. Being the crafty woman she…
Ida B Wells was born on July 16th 1962 in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Ida’s parents were slaves, so Ida was born a slave. When Ida was only 6 months old her and her family were declared free because of the Emancipation Proclamation. Both of her parents were active in the Republican Party. Ida’s father James helped start Shaw university, which was a school for newly freed slaves. It was at Shaw University that Ida received her early schooling, however she had to drop out at the young age of 16 when she lost her family. Both of Ida’s parents and her baby brother died in a yellow fever outbreak and since she was the oldest, this caused Ida to be the one in charge of caring for her younger siblings. At just the age of 16 Ida was having to be a…
Ida B. Wells was born a slave on July 16, 1862. She lived in Holly Springs, Mississippi with her "parents" James and Elizabeth (Warrenton) Wells. They had a family that consists of four boys and four girls. Unfortunately he died in Chicago, Illinois in 1931 at 69 because of kidney disease. Wells was one of 11 Tennesseans depicted bicentennial portrait and founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She was a hard working teacher and she only got $25 a month. Also, she became a news reporter and part owner for Memphis Free Speech and wrote at the New York Age. Wells started the first African-American kindergarten in Chicago and she ran for Illinois state senate in 1930. Ida B. Wells was born a slave on…
She created the National Farmers Workers Association which gave rights to farmworkers who didn’t have right before. Because or her gender and ethnic backroad she had to deal with criticism. She didn’t let that stop her…
She dared to challenge the entire system of justice. While she may have been thought of as stiff, the fact that she fought for so many people for nearly her entire life greatly makes up for any small personality quirks she may have had. She seems to be lacking the recognition she deserves, she should be more well-known for her efforts than she is today.…
Once the Civil War had ended, many rejoiced and thought that African Americans would be free to live out normal lives, but then came the increase of lynching. After the war, the Southern economy was in ruins, and lynching had allowed white southerners to express their hatred and discontent towards the situation and African Americans were the vulnerable targets for their pent-up anger (Notes). In Southern Horrors, Feimster introduces Rebecca Felton, who was a wealthy slave owner, and Ida B. Wells, a slave born women, and how each woman viewed this idea of lynching drastically diverse from each other due to their upbringings.…
Ida B. Wells was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, on July 16th, 1862. She was born a slave, and was the oldest daughter of James and Lizzie Wells. Just six months after her birth, the slaves in the Confederate states were declared free by the Union, but this did not stop the racial prejudices and discriminatory laws that continued to restrict their freedoms. During Reconstruction, her parents were active in the Republican Party. Her father helped start Shaw University, a school for newly freed slaves. This was where Ida B. Wells received her early schooling, but she had to drop out when both her parents and one of her siblings died from yellow fever. But she was still able to take care of her other siblings, and had a job as a teacher before she was 18 years old.…
"She probably will be remembered as a woman who challenged everyone. She challenged the white political leadership of the state to do what was fair and equitable among all people and she challenged black citizens to stand up and demand their rightful place in the state and the…
In the article written by Patricia Hill Collins entitled “On Lynchings,” Collins describes the life of Ida B Wells through theoretical frameworks such as Black intellectual production and Black Feminist Thought. Collins situates Wells’ lived experience as a catalyst for her activism. “Ida Wells-Barnett’s voice in these essays grows from lived experience with Black people, and not simply from theorizing about them.” (182 Collins) Wells’ intellectual and political work, as told by Collins, involved the development of African American communities through a “racial uplift.” (176 Collins) Though Collins work focuses on Wells political achievement, at the same time, Collins expresses how narratives are silenced throughout the retelling of history especially the work from Black intellectuals in particular Wells.…
Ida B. Wells is one of the most iconic African American women reformists that boldly challenged social injustices and demand for equality. She was raised in Holy Springs, Mississippi that was freed from slavery through the Emancipation Proclamation. Granted educational opportunities her enthusiasm to learn and the search for the truth grew which led her to many achievements on being a teacher, businesswomen, newspaper columnist, and investigative journalist. The best achievement though was her international anti-lynching campaign that increased awareness for change. Ida B. Wells was able to succeed in her activist’s efforts through her courageous nobility instilled by her parents, the oppression and violence she saw African Americans faced during and after Reconstruction, and her drive to implement change on the standards of gender and women’s rights.…
July 10th, 1875 was the day that miss Mary Mcleod Bethune was born in Mayesville South Carolina to her mother and father, who previously themselves were slaves. Mary, later in life, would come to be recognized as “one of the most prominent African American women of the first half of the twentieth century-- and one of the most powerful.”. After serving as an educator,an activist, and an advisor for a line of presidents Mary can be credited as a major figure in the road to equal opportunity in the field of education. As a child in a family of nineteen, seventeen children and their two parents, it wasn't likely that she would have known anything else because there were no opportunities for any of her siblings to go to school, all they knew was…
Susan B. Anthony was fearless. She was never afraid to speak out and say what she knew to be right. She campaigned to prohibit alcohol sale, slavery, and women’s suffrage against popular opinions and beliefs. On November 5, 1872, the day of the presidential election, Susan went to vote in front of a parlor. She was then arrested and given a $100 fine that she would never pay. Susan B. Anthony had nerve, and she wasn’t going to let anyone tell her what to do and that’s why she was a great leader. She had an idea and she wouldn’t let anyone get in her…
("Ida B. Wells Barnett," 1992). She turned out to be a very well-liked and successful teacher, but…
Cited: Wells, Ida B. Southern horrors and other writings : the anti-lynching campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900. Edited and with an introduction by Jacqueline Jones Royster. Boston : Bedford Books, 1997.…