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Ida B. Wells, an African-American woman, and feminist, shaped the image of empowerment and citizenship during post-reconstruction times. The essays, books, and newspaper articles she wrote, instigated the dialogue of race struggles between whites and blacks, while her personal narratives, including two diaries, a travel journal, and an autobiography, recorded the personal struggle of a woman to define womanhood during post-emancipation America. The novel, _THEY SAY: IDA B. WELLS AND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF RACE_ , provides an insight into how Ida B. Wells's life paralleled that of

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Ida began to write down articles regarding the racial injustices of the South. initially she wrote articles for native newspapers and magazines. Then she began her own newspaper referred to as the Free Speech wherever she wrote regarding segregation and discrimination.

Although she lost the lawsuit, this particular event marked the beginning of her lifelong pursuit of social justice for African-Americans. Ida worked for a several African-American newspapers and magazines in Tennessee, writing about issues such as the unfortunate conditions in local black schools. While teaching, Ida was offered an editorial position for the Evening Star in Washington, DC. Ida also wrote for The Living Way weekly newspaper under the name "Iola," having a reputation for writing about race. In 1889, Ida became the co-owner and editor of Free Speech and Headlight, an anti-segregation newspaper that was started by the Reverend Taylor Nightingale, where it published articles about racial injustice. In 1891, Wells was dismissed from her teaching position by the Memphis Board of Education due to articles she had written that criticized conditions in the colored schools of the region. Ida was grief-stricken but undeterred, and put forth her energy on writing articles for The Living Way and the Free Speech and

Ida B. Wells lived during the late 19th and early 20th century, fighting for civil and women’s rights movements. She was a well-established journalist and most famous for her anti-lynching campaigns. Born in 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi, Ida lived with her parents until they and her youngest brother were killed by a severe yellow fever epidemic. Left with her five remaining siblings, she took the responsibility of being their primary caregiver. Deciding to move to Memphis with her aunt, Wells became a leading woman figure in the African-American community that she had been living in. “By her late twenties, Wells had become one of the preeminent female journalists of her day, and the editor and co-owner of the Memphis, Tennessee, newspaper Free Speech and Headlight” (page 4). Also launching a strong investigation into lynching and its conquests in the South, Wells found herself to become exiled from there forever.

Ida Tarbell, “one of the first "muckrakers," as they came to be called, agreed that journalists should strive for truth” (Satter). Tarbell would not write an article or a book even unless every fact or note in that article or book was the absolute truth; and making sure that everything was perfect. On the job, “she perfected her keen attention to detail. Tarbell remembered worrying, ‘What if the accent was in the wrong place? What if I brought somebody into the world in the wrong year’” (Satter)? Additionally, Tarbell had different persuasive influences and one of them was her mother. “Another powerful influence on Ida was her mother. Esther often welcomed into the Tarbell home reformers working for women's rights” (Satter). Tarbell’s mother wanted her to see what these reformers did to fight for the independence of women. After Ida Tarbell met these reformers she had promised herself that she would avoid getting married and get a good education in which she enrolled in Allegheny College. Tarbell wanted to fight for women’s financial rights in which is where her mother has influenced

Ida B. Wells is a name that should always be synonymous with African American modern history. Being born during the Civil War in the South and living her life through Reconstruction, history would play a huge role with her life. So when given the choice of being a background character or to take center stage, Wells found her spot light and shone like the morning sun. The South would do its best to stifle her voice both as child, though she would not know it, and as an adult. Yet Wells would show the strength and determination of an African American woman and prove that she was as much a part of the large scale Civil Rights Movement as her male counterparts.

(1) ‘Julia Hooks, fellow teacher and Musician, went to a concert with Wells (June 1886) shared the determination to stand up for civil rights with Ida. Hooks

Ida Wells-Barnett was born on July 16. 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi, just months before her plantation slave parents were declared free when the Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1st, 1863. Although all slaves in the South were freed, all blacks were met with prejudice in every way possible. Because of the deeply rooted racism and dehumanization of blacks in the “new South”, and the lynching’s of some of her closest friends, Wells-Barnett was compelled to write and publish Southern Horrors in 1892. This was written to educate and enlighten the public of the countless lynching’s taking place and other acts of injustice occurring throughout the south against blacks. Wells-Barnett sought to reveal the true, root cause of

MS Wells Was a skilled and persuasive rhetorician and travel internationally on lecture tours. MS Wells was a born slave in holly springs in Mississippi in 1862. No matter how bad she wanted to get away they always found a way to find her in keep her in torched her. They made her scrub floor for 60s day a week nonstop no pay. One day she came up with a plan to escape from the from the Farm so she gather all her things in got on the railroad train Made it to acer as soon as she land the man ask her for her Freedom pass she look in her bag in realized that she didn’t have. The officer told her that she will be a slave if she didn’t have it. One

Being a colored woman in the 1960's was a difficult time, but Aibileen never let anything come in the way of pursuing her goals even if the outcomes affected her friends and social life. Aibileen knew if people were to find out that she was involved in the book, there would be a possibility she would never be hired again - the information would spread all across the country. In addition to no job, the white ladies they worked for had their own types of punishment because

A woman named Ida Tarbell exposes the unfair practice in United States. She is an author and journalist. Later in the year, womans created a group which people called Women in the Progressive Era. In the year, white married women are not allowed to work.

She was a dual reformers, fighting for both, racial and gender equality. Wells, spoke out against the brutal practice of lynching and mob justice and the lack of response. Lynch mobs had no fear of reprisal, as the authorities did nothing to prevent or pursue them. In her Pamphlet: Southern Horrors, she criticized the reasons given to justify the Lynchings: false sexual assault allegations against white women and protecting white society/women’s virtue. She argued that these relationships were consensual. Wells stated, “Nobody in this section of the country believes the old thread-bare lie that Negro men rape white women. If Southern white men are not careful they will overreach themselves, and public sentiment will have a reaction; and a conclusion will be reached which will be very damaging to the moral reputation of their

A rather large woman came to Sherlock asking him to find Mister Hosmer Angel. Sherlock found many things about her particular. She told him that her step father didn’t want her to marry and gave him letters her fiance wrote. When he ask her dad to come to his office, her dad wrote back and said he would. When her dad showed up they locked the door.

Ida B. Wells was a woman dedicated to a cause, a cause to prevent hundreds of thousands of people from being murdered by lynching. Lynching is defined as to take the law into its own hands and kill someone in punishment for a crime or a presumed crime. Ida B. Wells’ back round made her a logical spokesperson against lynching. She drew on many experiences throughout her life to aid in her crusade. Her position as a black woman, however, affected her credibility both in and out of America in a few different ways.