others. One woman in particular‚ Ida B. Wells‚ advocated for African Americans throughout her life and continued
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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
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Ida B. Wells is well known for her influence during the civil rights and women’s rights movements. She was born in 1862 in Holly Springs Mississippi. Her parents died of yellow fever when she was only sixteen years old. She was to be split up from her other six siblings‚ but she dropped out of school and managed to get a job as a teacher and was able to keep her family together. She soon realized the discrimination in pay that there was as she was taking home thirty dollars compared to someone
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Cox‚ Du Bois‚ and Ida B. Wells-Barnett all had similar ideas. They all experienced racial segregation related issues whether it pertained personally to themselves or not. The topics they discuss are important to our society today because they inform us on issues of the past that persist today and give us insight on the progress we have or have not made. We can compare our personal experiences in our lives with theirs‚ and recognize how fortunate we are not to have gone through some of the exact struggles
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Ida B. Wells was an early proponent of civil rights and was a prominent journalist and activist in the 1890s. Born a slave in Mississippi in the era of the civil war and at the age of sixteen she became the head of her household when both of her parents passed away do to the yellow fever epidemic. To support her five other siblings Wells started to teach in rural Mississippi. Shortly after‚ Wells became an editor of a newspaper and used it as means of addressing injustices against African Americans
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Douglas have been if he had not taken a stand and fought to abolish slavery . Truth is they would have been nothing‚ nothing but a sad‚ hopeless person holding in what was meant to set them free. Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ Fredrick Douglas‚ Rosa Parks‚ Ida B. Wells-Barnett .. all these men and women have something in common they all are fearless‚ they hold a great level of confidence in themselves. Because of their confidence they have made history‚ and made the day brighter for many generations to come.
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Wells would’ve been comrades in arms (maybe no gun for bell hooks!) if they were contemporaries. I can’t help but wonder if hooks studied Ida B. Wells as she developed her feminist theories. There are many‚ many similarities between these two women in terms of feminist theory and their work against ideologies of oppression and domination. As I read through Wells’ autobiography‚ I was constantly reminded of bell hooks. For example
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All the while‚ writers from different times compiled compositions of their own. In determinations to expose the truth‚ “A Red Record”‚ by Ida B. Wells offered facts and statistics about the repulsion of lynching in America. Some years later‚ after Ida B. Wells‚ in 1937‚ Abel Meerool’s poem‚ “Strange Fruit”‚ later recorded as a song by Billie Holiday in 1939‚ focused on the purpose and resolution of racial violence. Following the Jim Crow eras and
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Plessy was arrested for sitting in the white section on a train. He argued the arrest violated his rights under the 14th amendment and the law he broke was unconstitutional. The court ruled 8 to 1 that segregation laws were constitutional. Ida B. Wells was a courageous woman. She stood up for what she believed in regardless of the dangers she faced. She wrote about lynching and why it was wrong. She used her writing skills to bring attention to it in the United States and in England. She said there
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paralleled by the absence of laws to protect LGBTQ individuals. One of the most violent anti-black ideas supported by Jim Crow Laws was lynching‚ whose horrors were brought into light by political activist‚ Ida B Wells‚ in her 1900 speech in Chicago‚ “Lynch Law in America”. In the speech‚ Wells explains that soon after the Civil War‚ “lynchings began...rapidly spreading into...various States until...the reign of the ‘unwritten law’ was supreme‚” (4). In other words‚ whites‚ shielded by state legislators
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