Ida B. Wells | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-04

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Ida B. Wells


00:02:05 1 Early life
00:04:27 2 Early career
00:07:18 3 Anti-lynching campaign and investigative journalism
00:07:30 3.1 The lynching at The Curve in Memphis
00:11:16 3.2 iSouthern Horrors/i and iThe Red Record/i
00:16:07 3.3 Speaking tours in Britain
00:18:28 4 Marriage and family
00:20:17 5 African-American leadership
00:21:32 6 Organizing in Chicago
00:22:00 6.1 Columbian Exposition
00:22:55 6.2 Women’s Clubs
00:25:01 7 Suffrage
00:25:10 7.1 Willard controversy
00:27:33 7.2 Alpha Suffrage Club
00:29:35 8 Representation in other media
00:30:41 9 Influence on black feminist activism
00:31:20 10 Autobiography and Death
00:31:51 11 Selected publications
00:32:22 12 Legacy and honors
00:34:47 13 Representation in other media
00:35:52 14 Influence on black feminist activism
00:36:31 15 See also



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Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931), more commonly known as Ida B. Wells, was an African-American investigative journalist, educator, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She arguably became the most famous black woman in America, during a life that was centered on combating prejudice and violence.Wells was born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi.  Freed by the Emancipation Proclamation during the American Civil War,  she lost both her parents and a sibling in the 1878 yellow fever epidemic, when she was 16 years old. She went to work and kept the rest of the family intact with the help of her grandmother. She moved with some of her siblings to Memphis, Tennessee, where she found better pay as a teacher. Soon she co-owned a newspaper, the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight.
In the 1890s, Wells documented lynching in the United States, investigating frequent claims of whites that lynchings were reserved for black criminals only. Wells exposed lynching as a barbaric practice of whites in the South used to intimidate and oppress black people, who created economic and political competition and a subsequent threat of loss of power for whites. A white mob destroyed her newspaper office and presses, as her investigative reporting was carried nationally in black owned newspapers.
Subjected to continued threats, Wells left Memphis for Chicago. She then married and had a family while continuing her work writing, speaking, and organizing for civil rights for the rest of her life. Wells was outspoken regarding her beliefs as a Black female activist and faced regular public disapproval, including that of leaders with diverging viewpoints from both the Civil Rights movement and the Women's Suffrage movement.  She was nonetheless active in women's rights and the women's suffrage movement, establishing several notable women's organizations. Wells was a skilled and persuasive speaker and traveled internationally on lecture tours.