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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]
Rumor spread that the victim had suffered severe injuries from rape and physical mutilation. However, an investigation by journalist Ida B. Wells revealed it to be her opinion that the rape accusation was false: As a matter of fact, the child was not brutally assaulted as the world has been told, as an excuse for the awful barbarism of that day.
Ida B. Wells was a significant figure in the anti-lynching movement. After the lynchings of her three friends, she condemned the lynchings in the newspapers Free Speech and Headlight, both owned by her. Wells wrote to reveal the abuse and race violence African Americans had to go through.
Ida B. Wells was a remarkable human: a groundbreaking African American journalist, civil rights leader and anti-lynching activist. Born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi in 1862 (just ...
Ida B. Wells was an influential journalist, co-founder of the NAACP and dogged advocate for the rights of the Black American woman. What did Ida B. Wells accomplish?
In March 1898, the journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett was the sole woman among eight congressmen who made a visit to the White House.. They came to implore President William McKinley to punish the ...
The Ida B. Wells-Barnett House was the residence of civil rights advocate Ida B. Wells (1862–1931) and her husband Ferdinand Lee Barnett from 1919 to 1930. It is located at 3624 S. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in the Bronzeville section of the Douglas community area on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois.
In 1893, Ida B. Wells began writing for the newspaper. She later purchased a partial ownership in the publication. She married Barnett in 1895 and then took over full ownership of the Conservator. She was the editor from 1895 to 1897. [5] After Wells retired to raise her children, D. Robert Wilkins became the editor of the Conservator.