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The play is inspired by the real-life events that compelled a 29-year-old Ida B. Wells to launch an anti-lynching crusade from Memphis in 1892 using her newspaper, Free Speech. [ 181 ] Wells's life is the subject of Constant Star (2002), a widely performed musical drama by Tazewell Thompson , [ 182 ] who was inspired to write it by the 1989 ...
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The Ida B. Wells-Barnett House is located on Chicago's South Side, on the west side of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive roughly midway between 35th and 37th streets. It is a three-story structure built out of ashlar granite in the Romanesque Revival style which was popular around 1890. The front facade is divided into a large right bay, a smaller ...
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 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.
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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."
She is the paternal great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells. Growing up in Chicago's South Side, Duster began writing from an early age. While in high school, she entered essay contests and was a writer for the school newspaper. [3] In 1985, she obtained her B.A. in Psychology from Dartmouth College. [4]