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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]
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) [a] is an American civil rights organization formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, Ida B. Wells, Lillian Wald, and Henry Moskowitz.
Ida B. Wells, founder of the Alpha Suffrage Club The Alpha Suffrage Club was the first and most important black female suffrage club in Chicago and one of the most important in Illinois. [ 1 ] It was founded on January 30, 1913, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] by Ida B. Wells with the help of her white colleagues Belle Squire and Virginia Brooks .
1935–1939. She was extremely active in the civil rights movement and lobbied with the NAACP on the anti-lynching bill being considered in Congress. She received honors and awards from the California State Senate and the City of Berkeley, California. Under her tenure, the National Library Project was implemented. [1] H. Elsie Austin, J.D. Zeta
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 ...
The National Afro-American Council was the first nationwide civil rights organization in the United States, created in 1898 in Rochester, New York.Before its dissolution a decade later, the Council provided both the first national arena for discussion of critical issues for African Americans and a training ground for some of the nation's most famous civil rights leaders in the 1910s, 1920s ...
In 1894, Ovington met Ida B. Wells, while taking Christmas presents to Ida's sister's children. Mary was so appalled by their living conditions that she started working with Wells to force the city to update the tenements [citation needed]. In 1895, she helped found the Greenpoint Settlement in Brooklyn.
In March 1898, the journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett was the sole woman among eight congressmen who made a visit to the White House. Ida B. Wells pushed 7 presidents to pass anti-lynching ...