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Students learn to make scale model aircraft for the war effort in a class at the Ida B. Wells Homes community center (March 1942) Named for African American journalist and newspaper editor Ida B. Wells, [1] the housing project was constructed between 1939 and 1941 as a Public Works Administration project to house black families in the "ghetto", in accordance with federal regulations requiring ...
At around 6-7 P.M. that day, Rankins and Johnson took Morse and his eight-year-old brother Derrick Lemon to a vacant apartment on the 14th floor of a high-rise building in the Ida B. Wells Homes, a housing project in Chicago's South Side. Rankins and Johnson dangled Morse out of a window of the apartment, resisting attempts by Lemon to ...
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.
The prominent Black female figures are among the United States Mint’s honorees for the 2025 American Women Quarters Program, which […] The post Ida B. Wells, Althea Gibson will appear on ...
The U.S. Mint has unveiled designs for quarters featuring important women in history, including journalist Ida B. Wells and tennis player Althea Gibson. The designs are part of the final series of ...
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]
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 ...
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."