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The Ida B. Wells Memorial Foundation and the Ida B. Wells Museum have also been established to protect, preserve and promote Wells's legacy. [138] In her hometown of Holly Springs, Mississippi, there is an Ida B. Wells-Barnett Museum named in her honor that acts as a cultural center of African-American history. [139]
The Negro Fellowship League (NFL) Reading Room and Social Center was one of the first black settlement houses in Chicago.It was founded by Ida B. Wells and her husband Ferdinand Barnett in 1910, [1] and provided social services and community resources for black men arriving in Chicago from the south during the Great Migration.
Ida B. Wells, founder of the Alpha Suffrage Club. The Alpha Suffrage Club was the first and most important black female suffrage club in Chicago and one of the most important in Illinois. [1] It was founded on January 30, 1913, [2] [3] by Ida B. Wells with the help of her white colleagues Belle Squire and Virginia Brooks.
The Light of Truth Ida B. Wells National Monument is a bronze and marble public sculpture by artist Richard Hunt.Located in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, the sculpture takes its name from a quote by civil rights activist and investigative journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931): "The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them".
Boling owned nine slaves, including Lizzie Wells and Ida B. Wells, who went on to become a renowned Civil Rights activist. [6] Later, the house became known as the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Museum. [2] [3] The museum presents "the contributions of African Americans in the fields of history, art and culture."
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The Consensys complaint filed on Thursday reveals that the SEC earlier this month issued a so-called Wells Notice, which describes a formal letter warning the agency intends to sue a firm, and ...
Herman B Wells (June 7, 1902 – March 18, 2000), a native of Boone County, Indiana, was the eleventh president of Indiana University Bloomington and its first university chancellor. He was pivotal in the transformation of Indiana University from a small, locally oriented college into a world-class institution of higher learning through ...