Journalist & suffragette Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a founding member of the NAACP. She was known for her tireless crusade against lynching.
After the lynching of her friend, Tommie Moss, https://tinyl.io/7Zwg, Wells-Barnett investigated the causes of lynching.
Her writings on white mob violence resulted in her Memphis, TN newspaper being torched; she moved to Chicago afterward. https://tinyl.io/7Zwi
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The most prominent entrance to Chicago from the old post office building to Grant Park is named in her honor. My several refugee friends who became citizens this year all went to the State Dept Offices on Ida B. Wells Drive for their interviews. Tests, and ceremonies. She is right up there with Lady Liberty!
@SharonGibson3 Ida B Wells came to Birmingham, UK:
https://blog.bham.ac.uk/legalherstory/2018/03/08/ida-b-wells-and-the-birmingham-connection-anti-lynching-activism-in-the-united-kingdom/
We have a blue plaque to honour her visit:
https://www.iambirmingham.co.uk/2019/02/14/birmingham-blue-plaque-unveiled-commemorate-civil-rights-activist-ida-b-wells/
"Talk about content moderation & censorship of diverse viewpoints."
There's nothing moderated or censored about this journalist. Are you sure you're responding to the right post?
There should be a movie about her, or a streaming show, if there haven't been yet.
There is Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice (1989), which was an episode of PBS' American Experience.
https://amz.run/6GXO
The documentary is now streaming on Kanopy and YouTube.
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice: Directed by William Greaves. With Troy Duster, Al Freeman Jr., Paula Giddings, Toni Morrison. The work of a notable civil rights crusader in the late 19th and early 20th century.
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