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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 ...
Paula Jane Giddings (born 1947) is an American writer, historian, and civil rights activist.She is the author of When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America (1984), In Search of Sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement (1988) and Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching (2008).
Royster's research focuses mostly on African-American women and civil rights. Two of her books are Traces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change among African-American Women and Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900. She was a co-editor for Reader's Choice. [2]
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 ...
A group of prominent citizens in Chicago, led by journalist and activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett, hired detective Louis P. Le Vin to investigate the Hose lynching. Le Vin's entire report was published in Chapter IV of Ida B. Wells-Barnett's article, Lynch Law in Georgia. Le Vin stated that he spent over one week in his investigation.
The lynching sparked national outrage, and Ida B. Wells' editorial, Free Speech, embraced Moss' dying words, which encouraged blacks to leave. "Following the advice of the Free Speech, people left the city in great numbers." [14] Lastly, Wells-Barnett had a personal connection to Moss and his wife as they were dear friends. [15]
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).
Duster has worked to preserve Ida B. Wells' legacy both through written publications and public history projects. [6] [7] [8] She has written one children's book, Ida B. Wells, Voice of Truth: Educator, Feminist, and Anti-lynching Civil Rights Leader [9] and one young adult biography, Ida B.