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Ida B Wells

Ida B Wells. (July 16, 1862-March 25, 1931 ). Who is Ida B Wells?. She is the oldest of eight children Was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi Her parents were from the Republican party She attended Rust College then became a teacher. What was the newspaper she co-owned?.

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Ida B Wells

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  1. Ida B Wells (July 16, 1862-March 25, 1931)

  2. Who is Ida B Wells? • She is the oldest of eight children • Was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi • Her parents were from the Republican party • She attended Rust College then became a teacher

  3. What was the newspaper she co-owned? • THE FREE SPEECH AND HEADLIGHT • She was fired from being a teacher and became a full time journalist • Her newspaper was about how black people didn’t fight for their rights etc.

  4. What was the consequences of her newspaper articles? • Her friend Tom Moss was lynched along with two friends • After she wrote about it in her newspaper • Then the whites warned her not to come back to Memphis because her life would be in danger

  5. Where did Ida take her anti-lynching campaign? • To England where it was accepted • She wrote many pamphlets exposing white violence and lynching against blacks • In 1895 she married Ferdinand Barnett a Chicago attorney

  6. What did she help organize and help fund? • She organized the National Association of Colored Women • She was one of the founders of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) • She continued to fight for black rights until she died.

  7. TIME LINE • Born 1862 • 1870 her parents died • 1883 sued the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad • 1892 her friend Tom Moss was lynched • Mid 1890s she moved to Chicago • 1895 she married Ferdinand Barnett • 1909 she founded NACCP • Died 1931

  8. Why is she important/how did she effect African Americans? • She is important because she stood up for violence against black people • Exposed the mistreatment of blacks from the whites • She worked tirelessly and fearlessly to over turn injustices for colored people

  9.  Lynching

  10.  1909

  11. Quotes • “One had better DIE FIGHTING against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap” • “The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the south” • “If this work can be contribute in anyway toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for the justice to every citizen, and punishment by the law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service”

  12. Why the quotes are important • They empower to stand up for what’s right and wrong • How one person could change many things

  13. By: Diana Orellana Period 4 02/04/14

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