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Protesting for violence

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She would get stories from prisoners before they were hanged or lynched.

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Born July 16, 1862, Holly Springs MS

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Died March 25, 1931, Chicago Illinois

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Once Ida was born in MS Holly Springs she was automatically put into slavery during the civil war. Once war was ended her parents had became politically active in reconstruction era politics. Later her parents had enrolled her into the importance of education.

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When Ida was in Chicago she was attacked from the Chicago world's fair of Black people. After she continued her anti-lynching campaign and began to work against the segregation for women's suffrage.

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Ida had face some family member deaths, She had traveled very widely, and she also married Ferdinand.

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Ida B Wells had suffered the loss of her parents and her infant brother due to yellow fever epidemic in the late 1878.

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The way they were treating people was just disgusting and pure evil.

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She would break into prisons to get black peoples stories and seen how badly they were treated just because of their skin color or just because white didn't like them.

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Trying to make history

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Because she felt that the way there ere treating these prisoners where absolutely wrong and terrible.

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Violence Against Blacks

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Protesting

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she broke  into jail because  she was angry at the murders that killed her friends  

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she broke  into jail because  she was angry at the murders that killed her friends  

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She was protesting for violence against black people. Gun violence and physical.

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People who were lynched

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She was very curious about why people where being lynched.

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Ida B Wells events had impacted the world by establishing the first kindergarten class as well as things such as organizing black women, and helping people elect the city's first black alderman. By this awesome and amazing work that she did she had paved a way for generations of black politicians, activists, and community leaders.

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This impact basically helped people realize that we all are the same and people should be treated with respect and kindness and this also led to black being able to vote and go to school fairly and just as the whites were able to go to school.

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Ida B. Wells’ friends were lynched on this date in 1892. #history #idabwells #america #fyp #foryoupage #foryou #lynching #racism #freedom #black

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Ida B. Wells’ friends were lynched on this date in 1892. #history #idabwells #america #fyp #foryoupage #foryou #lynching #racism #freedom #black
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When she was out of town she started to realize that an editorial she did had causes a huge riot in the late 1892.

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This book that she had written basically made a huge riot where people might of disagreed with her on the story or book she had written.

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Ida B Wells Collection:  The Arkansas Riots (1919) The Riots & Their  Cases Stated

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black people are getting killed about their color by white people 

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black people are getting killed about their color by white people 

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a prominent journalist, activist, and researcher, in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries. In her lifetime, she battled sexism, racism, and violence. As a skilled writer, Wells-Barnett also used her skills as a journalist to shed light on the conditions of African Americans throughout the South.

Ida Bell Wells was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi on July 16 th, 1862. She was born into slavery during the Civil War. Once the war ended Wells-Barnett's parents became politically active in Reconstruction Era politics. Her parents instilled into her the importance of education. Wells-Barnett enrolled at Rust College but was expelled when she started a dispute with the university president. In 1878, Wells-Barnett went to visit her grandmother. While she was there Wells-Barnett was informed that a yellow fever epidemic had hit her hometown. The disease took both of Wells-Barnett's parents and her infant brother. Left to raise her brothers and sister, she took a job as a teacher so that she could keep the family together. Eventually, Wells-Barnett moved her siblings to Memphis, Tennessee. There she continued to work as an educator.

In 1884, Wells-Barnett filed a lawsuit against a train car company in Memphis for unfair treatment. She had been thrown off a first-class train, despite having a ticket. Although she won the case on the local level, the ruling was eventually overturned in federal court. After the lynching of one of her friends, Wells-Barnett turned her attention to white mob violence. She became skeptical about the reasons black men were lynched and set out to investigate several cases. She published her findings in a pamphlet and wrote several columns in local newspapers. Her expose about an 1892 lynching enraged locals, who burned her press and drove her from Memphis. After a few months, the threats became so bad she was forced to move to Chicago, Illinois.

In 1893, Wells-Barnett, joined other African American leaders in calling for the boycott of the World's Columbian Exposition. The boycotters accused the exposition committee of locking out African Americans and negatively portraying the black community. In 1895, Wells-Barnett married famed African American lawyer Ferdinand Barnett. Together, the couple had four children. Throughout her career Wells-Barnett, balanced motherhood with her activism.

Wells-Barnett traveled internationally, shedding light on lynching to foreign audiences. Abroad, she openly confronted white women in the suffrage movement who ignored lynching. Because of her stance, she was often ridiculed and ostracized by women's suffrage organizations in the United States. Nevertheless, Wells-Barnett remained active the women's rights movement. She was a founder of the National Association of Colored Women's Club which was created to address issues dealing with civil rights and women's suffrage. Although she was in Niagara Falls for the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), her name is not mentioned as an official founder. Late in her career Wells-Barnett focused on urban reform in the growing city of Chicago. She died on March 25 th, 1931.

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Pioneering journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett battled sexism, racism, and violence, particularly working to shed light on the conditions of African Americans throughout the South. Read her story on womenshistory.org.

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Members' Book Club Book of the Month:

The May book club book is Crusade for Justice-The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells by Ida B. Wells-one of the founders of the NAACP.

"No student of black history should overlook Crusade for Justice."-William M. Tuttle, Jr., Journal of American History

Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) was one of the foremost crusaders against black oppression. This engaging memoir tells of her private life as a mother of a growing family as well as her public activities as a teacher, lecturer, and journalist in her fight against attitudes and laws oppressing blacks.

Please join us! We will meet, via Zoom for now, once per month to talk and share our feelings about books we've read selected by our members. Everyone will have the opportunity to nominate books for future meetings.

We are meeting at 7pm on the 2nd Wednesday of each month. Criteria for book nominations includes anything related to the African-American experience and any books written by black authors regardless of topics. To join, just send an email request to bookclub@sandiegonaacp.org

We look forward to reading with you!

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May 12 Book Club: Crusade for Justice-The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells

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The May book club book is Crusade for Justice-The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells by Ida B. Wells-one of the founders of the NAACP. "No student of black history should overlook Crusade for Justice."-William M. Tuttle, Jr., Journal of American History Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) was one of the foremost crusaders against black oppression.

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Ida B Wells Protesting for women rights and prisoners that wasn't treated right.

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Ida B Wells Protesting for women rights and prisoners that wasn't treated right.