Ida B. Ida B wells was born on July 16, 1862, in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Ida B. Wells was born into slavery and was the oldest of six other siblings. Both of her parents and one of her siblings died in a yellow fever outbreak, leaving Wells to care for her other siblings. She received her early education, but she had to drop out at the age of 16. She then convinced a school administrator that she was 18 in order to get a job as a teacher In 1882. Wells moved with her sisters to Memphis, Tennessee, to live with a relative. Ida B. wells made an important impact on the African American community by leading anti lynching crusades in the U.S, becoming a powerful journalist , and by participating in the founding of the N.A.A.C.P. The first example that shows Ida B. Wells made an important impact on the African American community is her journalist career. On May 4, 1884, Ida B. Well’s …show more content…
journalist career was triggered. On this day, while riding a train to work, she was asked by a conductor to move from her seat in the ladies car to the smoking car. She refused to get up and the conductor tried to physically remove her out her seat. It took three men to get her out her seat, but instead of moving to the smoking car she got off at the next stop.When she returned to memphis she hired a lawyer as soon as possible. After the trial the court returned a verdict in favor of wells and she was then rewarded $500 for damages. She was so happy with her victory that she began to write sharing her story. She began writing articles about incident of wrongful deaths of African americans. In 1889 Wells was hired to write in a small Memphis newspaper called Free Speech and Headlight and became part-owner. Later she became a teacher in a segregated public school in Memphis. Because she was a vocal critic of the condition of black school In 1891, she was fired from her job for her criticizing attacks and became a full-time journalist. This proves that Ida b. wells made an important impact because her articles became wells know, causing a lot more cautiousness all around the world. The second example that shows how Ida B. Wells made an impact on the African American Community is that she supported anti- lynching groups. In 1890, she began protesting and writing about lynching groups, helping ending them for good. Her good friends Tom Moss, Calvin McDowell and Will Stewart—set up a grocery store in Memphis. They were arrested one night for shooting white men trying to attach their store. They went to jail without a chance to defend themselves . Lynching mobs ended up murdering them in their cells. Ida began to write articles and lead protest to help the issue. This proves that she made an important impact on the African American Community because her articles appeared in newspapers and her protest stirred up attention in Tennessee. The third reason as to prove how Ida B.
wells made an important impact on the African American community is her participation in many civil rights organizations. Ida B. Wells established several civil rights organizations. In 1896, she formed the National Association of Colored Women In 1909. She then attended a special conference for the organization that would later become known as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.She was known as one of the founding members of the NAACP but Later left because she felt like the organization failed to take action. this proved that she made an important impact because she was a main contributor to the NAACP, which is now a legal defense fund seeking to end racial bias in the criminal justice system, protect voting rights and achieve full African-American civic engagement, increase economic fairness and promote equal pay for all Americans, and increase equity in education by removing racial barriers to educational opportunity. Ida B. Wells died of kidney disease on March 25, 1931, at the age of 69, in Chicago,
Illinois. In Conclusion Ida B. Wells made an important impact on the African american Community by being a woman who dedicated her entire life to standing firm to her beliefs about social reform. She began by writing about the education and school conditions for black children and spent much of her life working to abolish lynching through public awareness. She also was a pioneering black female journalist, and led a very public life in a time when most women, black or white, did not actively participate in the male political realm. Ida. worked hard to stand up for civil rights as well as women rights and that is why she is important to the African american community.
The history of The Black Civil Rights Movement in the United States is a fascinating account of a group of human beings, forcibly taken from their homeland, brought to a strange new continent, and forced to endure countless inhuman atrocities. Forced into a life of involuntary servitude to white slave owners, African Americans were to face an uphill battle for many years to come. Who would face that battle? To say the fight for black civil rights "was a grassroots movement of ordinary people who accomplished extraordinary things" would be an understatement. Countless people made it their life's work to see the progression of civil rights in America. People like W.E.B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, A Phillip Randolph, Eleanor Roosevelt, and many others contributed to the fight although it would take ordinary people as well to lead the way in the fight for civil rights. This paper will focus on two people whose intelligence and bravery influenced future generations of civil rights organizers and crusaders. Ida B.Wells and Mary Mcleod Bethune were two African American women whose tenacity and influence would define the term "ordinary to extraordinary".
Ida B. Wells born in Holly Springs, Mississippi on July 16, 1862 and died March
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Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) was a newspaper editor and journalist who went on to lead the American anti-lynching crusade. Working closely with both African-American community leaders and American suffragists, Wells worked to raise gender issues within the "Race Question" and race issues within the "Woman Question." Wells was born the daughter of slaves in Holly Springs, Mississippi, on July 16, 1862. During Reconstruction, she was educated at a Missouri Freedman's School, Rust University, and began teaching school at the age of fourteen. In 1884, she moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where she continued to teach while attending Fisk University during summer sessions. In Tennessee, especially, she was appalled at the poor treatment she and other African-Americans received. After she was forcibly removed from her seat for refusing to move to a "colored car" on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, the Tennessee Supreme Court rejected her suit against the railroad for violating her civil rights in 1877. This event and the legal struggle that followed it, however, encouraged Wells to continue to oppose racial injustice toward African-Americans. She took up journalism in addition to school teaching, and in 1891, after she had written several newspaper articles critical of the educational opportunities afforded African-American students, her teaching contract was not renewed. Effectively barred from teaching, she invested her savings in a part-inte...
Ida B. Wells was born into slavery, and lived in Holly Springs Mississippi. She was later freed, and learned from her parents what it meant to be a political activist. By 1891, Wells was the owner of the newspaper, Free Speech, and was reporting on the horrors that were occurring in the south. Wells, along with other people of the African American activist community were particularly horrified about the lynching’s that were occurring in the south. As a response to the lynching that was occurring, and other violent acts that the African American community was dealing with Wells wrote three pamphlets: Southern Horrors, The Red Record, and Mob Brutality. Muckraking and investigative journalism can be seen throughout these pamphlets, as well as Wells intent to persuade the African American community, and certain members of the white community to take a stand against the crime of lynching. Wells’ writings are an effective historical text, because she serves as a voice to an underrepresented African American community.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett is an investigative journalist who wrote in honesty and bluntness about the tragedies and continued struggles of the Negro man. She was still very much involved with the issue even after being granted freedom and the right to vote. Statistics have shown that death and disparity continued to befall the Negro people in the South where the white man was “educated so long in that school of practice” (Pg. 677 Par. 2). Yet in all the countless murders of Negroes by the white man only three had been convicted. The white man of the South, although opposed to the freedom of Negroes would eventually have to face the fact of the changing times. However, they took every opportunity and excuse to justify their continued horrors. There were three main excuses that the white man of the South came up w...
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Wells was born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Her father, James Wells, was a carpenter and her mother was a cook. After the Civil War her parents became politically active. Her father was known as “race'; man, a term given to African Americans involved in the leadership of the community. He was a local businessman, a mason, and a member of the Board of Trustees of Shaw University. Both parents provided Ida with strong role models. They worked hard and held places of respect in the community as forward-looking people. James and Elizabeth (mother) Wells instilled their daughter a keen sense of duty to God, family, and community.
Ida Bell Wells, more commonly known as Ida B. Wells, was born in Holly Springs Mississippi on the 16th of July in 1862. Ida was raised by her mother Lizzie Wells and her father James Wells. She was born into slavery as the oldest of eight children in the family. Both Ida’s parents were enslaved during the Civil War but after the war they became active in the Republican Party during the Reconstruction era. Ida’s father, James, was also involved in the Freedman’s Aid Society (www.biography.com). He also helped to start Shaw University. Shaw University was a university for the newly freed slaves to attend, it was also where Ida received the majority of her schooling. However, Ida received little schooling because she was forced to take care of her other siblings after her parents and one of her siblings passed away due to Yellow Fever. Ida became a teacher at the age of 16 as a way to make money for her and her siblings. Eventually Ida and all her sisters moved to Memphis, Tennessee, to live with their aunt, leaving all their brothers behind to continue working. In Memphis Ida began to stand up for the rights of African Americans and women.
...s, and beliefs. She spoke on behalf of women’s voting rights in Washington D.C, Boston, and New York. She also was the first speaker for the foundation, National Federation of Afro-American Women. On top of all of it, she helped to organize the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (blackhistorystudies.com 2014).
Wells was a fearless anti-lynching crusader, women’s rights advocate, journalist, and speaker. After her parents passed away she became a teacher and received a job to teach at a nearby school. With this job she was able to support the needs of her siblings. In 1844 in Memphis, Tennessee, she was asked by the conductor of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company to give up her seat on the train to a white man. Wells refused, but was forcefully removed from the train and all the white passengers applauded. Wells was angered by this and sued the company and won her case in the local courts; the local court appealed to the Supreme Court of Tennessee. The Supreme Court reversed the court’s ruling. In Chicago, she helped to develop numerous African American women and reform organizations. Wells still remained hard-working in her anti-lynching crusade by ...
The year was 1915, Carter G. Woodson had recently traveled from Washington D.C to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of emancipation. This gave him and thousands of other African Americans the ability to appreciate displays highlighting the progress African Americans had made since the abolishment of slavery. This occasion inspired Woodson and four others to form the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (now Association for the Study of African American Life and History or ASALH). This organization’s purpose was to recognize and promote the accomplishments and history of African Americans that often went unnoticed. In 1916, Woodson created The Journal of Negro History in hopes that it would familiarize people with the findings and achievements of African Americans. But Woodson wanted more; he wanted all people to celebrate and be aware of the great things African Americans had and were accomplishing. He wanted both whites and blacks to have strong, positive affiliations. Woodson decided the best way to accomplish these things was to create Negro Achievement Week.
Ida B. Wells profession was being a journalist. Ida B. Wells had led a crusade against lynching in the 1890s. She was an abolist and feminist who strove for justice. She had been born on July 16th, 1862. She died the day of March 25, 1931.
Lastly, the Civil Rights Movement was also responsible for the advancement of civil rights for African-Americans from 1880-1980 because of the Nation Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP). William Du Bois and other black activists formed the NAACP in 1909. The aims of the organisation were “to make 1,000,000 Americans physically free from peonage, mentally free from ignorance, politically free from disenfranchisement, and socially free from insult.” By 1919 the NAACP had 90,000 members in 300 branches. It also challenged white supremacy, especially the segregation laws, and made black Americans much more aware of their civil right, particularly the right to vote. The NAACP also campaigned against the practice of lynching