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Ida B. Wells. Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931) was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). [1] Wells dedicated her career to combating prejudice and violence, and ...
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. The Club aimed to give a voice to African American women who had been ...
v. t. e. The anti-lynching movement was an organized political movement in the United States that aimed to eradicate the practice of lynching. Lynching was used as a tool to repress African Americans. [1] The anti-lynching movement reached its height between the 1890s and 1930s. The first recorded lynching in the United States was in 1835 in St ...
Ida B. Wells was an important figure in the growth of these clubs during the Progressive Era. [66] A number of clubs, named after her, were created in large cities across the country. [67] In Chicago, the wealthy former abolitionist Mary Jane Richardson Jones supported the development of several clubs, serving as the first chair of Wells's.
22 Ida B. Wells Quotes. Canva. 1. “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them." Canva. 2. “The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare ...
The Memphis Free Speech was an African American newspaper founded in 1881 [1] in Memphis, Tennessee, by the Reverend Taylor Nightingale, based at the Beale Street Baptist Church. [2] In 1888 the publication's name was changed to the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight when Nightingale was joined by J. L. Fleming, a newspaperman from Crittenden ...
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is an international temperance organization. It was among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity." [1] It plays an influential role in the ...
The Woman Suffrage Procession on March 3, 1913, was the first suffragist parade in Washington, D.C. It was also the first large, organized march on Washington for political purposes. [citation needed] The procession was organized by the suffragists Alice Paul and Lucy Burns for the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).