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Vor einem Tag · Journalist and activist Ida B. Wells Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Wells occupied that seat on September 15, 1883. Born about an hour southeast in Holly Springs, Mississippi, in 1862, she ...
Vor 3 Tagen · MAY 21, 1892. Crusading journalist Ida B. Wells published a column exposing the lynchings of African-American men and denouncing claims that the lynchings were meant to protect white women. Her anti-lynching campaign came after a mob killed three of her friends, who had reportedly opened a grocery store that competed with a white-owned store in ...
Vor 3 Tagen · Dive into the inspiring life of Ida B. Wells, a fearless journalist who fought tirelessly against injustice and advocated for civil rights. Discover her stor...
Vor 10 Stunden · In Chicago in 1893, for example, Frederick Douglass, denied a platform by the United States, participated as a representative of Haiti, and it was from Haiti’s pavilion that Ida B. Wells distributed pamphlets to attendees entitled, The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World’s Columbian Exposition (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu ...
Vor 3 Tagen · After a year’s hiatus, the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting has selected 11 emerging journalists for its summer internship program. The interns will be placed in some of the nation’s most prestigious newsrooms as part of the Society’s effort to increase the number of journalists from underrepresented groups who ultimately become investigative journalists.
Vor 2 Tagen · Dive deep into the work of prominent writers such as Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, Maya Angelou, James Baldwin and more, as well as lesser-known writers like Pauli Murray, whose poetry collection titled Dark Testament inspired the name of the exhibit.
Vor 2 Tagen · Credit: Historic New Orleans Collection. A clash between two Black men and three white police officers led to the July 1900 race riot in New Orleans. Robert Charles and his roommate, Leonard Pierce, were sitting on a stoop in a predominantly white neighborhood when they were approached by three white police officers, according to an article by ...
