Ida B. Wells by Gwyneth Kitchen https://padlet.com/24kitcg/h6ss1usd8wrzu5jc en-us 2023-02-28 14:20:37 UTC 2025-05-29 15:19:59 UTC hello@padlet.com Ida B. Wells 24kitcg https://padlet.com/24kitcg/h6ss1usd8wrzu5jc/wish/2498039657 2023-02-28 14:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/24kitcg/h6ss1usd8wrzu5jc/wish/2498039657 Background 24kitcg https://padlet.com/24kitcg/h6ss1usd8wrzu5jc/wish/2499575101
  • Ida was the daughter of freed Mississippi slaves. Her parents and younger sister were killed by yellow fever.
  •  She later decided to support her remaining siblings by getting a job as a teacher. 

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  • Ida was asked to give up her seat on the train for a white man and move to a "Jim Crow" car to which she refused. 
  • She bit the conductor when he attempted to remove her and was forcefully removed from the train. 
  • This encounter sparked her journalism career.
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  • Ida and her siblings were raised by their parents to believe in the Christian faith, be hardworking, and take pride in their education. 
  • When she began as a journalist, her work was aimed at a African-American and Christian audiences.
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  • Ida moved to Memphis, Tennessee, to help take care of her younger siblings who lived with her aunt.

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  • In 1889 three of Ida's friends were lynched. 
  • Three men who owned a grocery company were lynched because they took away business from a white owned store. Attackers wanted to eliminate competition for the store.
  • The men fought back, were arrested, and eventually killed.
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  • The death of the three of her friends caused Ida to write a passage in the The Memphis Free Speech.
  •  Later, in Chicago, she would write Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases. 
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  • The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States (1895)
  • Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1892)
  • Why the Colored American is Not in the World’s Columbian Exposition
  • Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of IDA B. Wells, Ida B.Wells and Alfreda M. Duster (1970)

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  • After the lynching incident, Ida stated in the Free Speech that the city of Memphis was against the wellbeing of the African-American population.
  • She advised readers to leave the city to protect their lives.
    • ]]>     2023-03-02 14:23:23 UTC https://padlet.com/24kitcg/h6ss1usd8wrzu5jc/wish/2501181818     Ida's Advice to Readers in Memphis 24kitcg https://padlet.com/24kitcg/h6ss1usd8wrzu5jc/wish/2501184490 "There is therefore only one thing left to do; save our money and leave a town which will neither protect our lives and property, nor give us a fair trial in the courts, but takes us out and murders us in cold blood when accused by white persons."]]> 2023-03-02 14:24:42 UTC https://padlet.com/24kitcg/h6ss1usd8wrzu5jc/wish/2501184490 Career 24kitcg https://padlet.com/24kitcg/h6ss1usd8wrzu5jc/wish/2505186269 Ida wrote about topics such as lynching, white suppression, and Jim Crow laws.]]> 2023-03-06 13:55:11 UTC https://padlet.com/24kitcg/h6ss1usd8wrzu5jc/wish/2505186269 Achievements 24kitcg https://padlet.com/24kitcg/h6ss1usd8wrzu5jc/wish/2505197255
  • Founder of the National Association of Colored Women's Club.
  • Member of Niagara Falls NAACP.
  • Chicago Housing Authority project named after her.
  • Scholarship fund given out by her grandchildren.
  • U.S. postal stamp with her image on it.
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  • Continued writing anti-lynching works.
  • Helped develop several reform organizations.
  • Fought for women's suffrage.


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  • Baker, Lee D. “Ida B. Wells-Barnett(1862-1931) and Her Passion for Justice, Black Women, African American Women, Sufferage, Women's Movement, Civil Rights Leaders.” Duke People, April 1996, https://people.duke.edu/~ldbaker/classes/AAIH/caaih/ibwells/ibwbkgrd.html. Accessed March 2023.
  • Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. “Ida B. Wells.” Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, https://chicagoliteraryhof.org/inductees/profile/ida-b-wells. Accessed March 2023.
  • Norwood, Arlisha R. “Ida B. Wells-Barnett.” National Women's History Museum, 2017, https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/ida-b-wells-barnett. Accessed March 2023.
  • Schechter, Patricia, et al. “Ida B. Wells, 1862-1931.” Northern Illinois University Digital Library, https://digital.lib.niu.edu/illinois/gildedage/ida-b-wells. Accessed March 2023.






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  • Ida marched in the 1913 march for universal suffrage in Washington, D.C.
  • Along with Jane Adams she helped block the segregation of schools in Chicago.

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