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Alfreda M. Duster [1] (née Barnett; September 3, 1904 – April 2, 1983) was an American social worker and civic leader in Chicago. [2] [3] She is best known as the youngest daughter of civil rights activist Ida B. Wells and as the editor of her mother's posthumously published autobiography, Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells (1970).
The couple had four children, Charles Aked (1896), Herman Kohlsaat (1897), Ida B. (1901), and Alfreda M. Barnett (later Alfreda Duster) (1904). Charles was named for the English anti-lynching activist Charles Aked , and Herman was named for the owner of the Chicago Inter Ocean , Herman Kohlsaat , who supported the Conservator . [ 2 ]
After her death, the club advocated to have a housing project in Chicago named after the founder, Ida B. Wells, and succeeded, making history in 1939 as the first housing project named after a woman of color. [101] Wells also helped organize the National Afro-American Council, serving as the organization's first secretary. [102]
Alfreda Duster (1904–1983), Chicago-based social worker and civic leader, daughter of civil rights activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett, mother of academician Troy Barnett (below) Anthony Duster Bennett (1946–1976), British blues singer and musician; Troy Duster, American sociologist, grandson of grandson Ida B. Wells-Barnett, son of Alfred Duster ...
People's Grocery, Memphis Tennessee, c. 1890. The People's Grocery lynchings of 1892 occurred on March 9, 1892, in Memphis, Tennessee, when black grocery owner Thomas Moss and two of his workers, Will Stewart and Calvin McDowell, were lynched by a white mob while in police custody.
Alfreda Theodora Strandberg was born in Brooklyn, New York. On March 7, 1907, she married Theodore F. Morse (1873–1924). She and her husband became a successful songwriting team for Tin Pan Alley .
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Cover page of The Progress, June 21, 1890. Barnett was active in the Omaha black community even before founding his paper, The Progress.In 1895, Barnett was a member of the Omaha branch of the National Afro-American League, serving in the Press committee with George F. Franklin, [6] and in 1896 he was an alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention.