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World's Columbian Exposition. The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus 's arrival in the New World in 1492. [1] The centerpiece of the Fair, held in Jackson Park, was a large water pool ...
– Ida B. Wells (1892) On September 15, 1883, and again on May 4, 1884, a train conductor with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ordered Wells to give up her seat in the first-class ladies car and move to the smoking car, which was already crowded with other passengers. In 1883, the United States Supreme Court had ruled against the federal Civil Rights Act of 1875 (which had banned racial ...
Indiana. Ontario. Pennsylvania. Date apprehended. November 17, 1894. Herman Webster Mudgett (May 16, 1861 – May 7, 1896), better known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes or H. H. Holmes, was an American con artist and serial killer active between 1891 and 1894. By the time of his execution in 1896, Holmes had engaged in a lengthy criminal career that ...
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. The Club aimed to give a voice to African American ...
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 ...
Lynchings. Massacres and riots. Reactions. Related topics. v. t. e. Article in the Calhoun Times, April 27, 1899. Sam Hose (born Samuel Thomas Wilkes; c. 1875 – April 23, 1899) was an African American man who was tortured and murdered by a white lynch mob in Coweta County, Georgia, after being accused of rape.
Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) Ida B. Wells (Chicago History Museum / Getty Images) Ida B. Wells was a prominent Black investigative journalist, educator and activist in the early civil rights movement.
The Light of Truth: Ida B. Wells National Monument is a bronze and marble public sculpture by artist Richard Hunt.Located in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, the sculpture takes its name from a quote by civil rights activist and investigative journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931): "The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them".