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BY : LEON KWASI KUNTUO-ASARE Ida Bells Wells-Barnett, more famously known as Ida B. Wells was born during the time of the American Civil War on July 16, 1862, in Holly Springs Mississippi. Wells would go from being born into the system of slavery, to becoming a school teacher in the post civil war America . Wells would eventually go […]
BY : LEON KWASI KUNTUO-ASARE
Ida Bells Wells-Barnett, more famously known as Ida B. Wells was born during the time of the American Civil War on July 16, 1862, in Holly Springs Mississippi. Wells would go from being born into the system of slavery, to becoming a school teacher in the post civil war America . Wells would eventually go on to become an editor of her own news paper, which she would use to crusade for many causes, including women’s rights and Civil rights for the African-American community, which would include speaking out against the lynching and murder of African-American men by racist white mobs.
Growing in her activist role, In 1896, Wells would found two civil rights organizations, the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, and the National Afro-American Council, which she co-founded.
Sadly on March 25, 1931, at the age of 68, Wells would die, due to kidney failure.
HER LEGACY:
Ida B.Wells was a woman ahead of her time, she was courageous, strong-minded, outspoken , and very assertive . She put her life in grave danger crusading against illegal lynching of blacks and the injustice of segregation.
THE EARLY LIFE OF IDA B. WELLS:
IDA B. WELLS : PIONEERING JOURNALIST.
IDA B. WELLS : WOMEN’S RIGHTS.
IDA B. WELLS : ANTI-LYNCHING CRUSADER.
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