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The Wells family lived in slave quarters located behind the house of Spires Boling while enslaved to him, now a museum focused on Wells. Ida Bell Wells was born on the Boling Farm near Holly Springs, Mississippi. [7] Born on July 16, 1862, Ida Wells was the first child of James Madison Wells (1840–1878) and Elizabeth "Lizzie" (Warrenton).
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).
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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.
He is known for holding the journalist Ida B. Wells and her family in bondage. There is now a museum dedicated to her in his former home the Boling–Gatewood House . [ 1 ] He is also remembered for his grand, columned, neoclassical residential buildings and his design for the Marshall County, Mississippi Courthouse in Holly Springs.
The Ida B. Wells Barbie Inspiring Women series doll will be available beginning Jan. 17, 2022, coinciding with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and will retail for $29.99 at Amazon, Walmart and Target.
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.
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."