Published by Good Press. 143 She was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi in 1862 and died in Chicago, Illinois 1931 at the age of sixty-nine. As Linda O. McMurry writes in her biography To Keep the Waters Troubled: The Life of Ida B. ). . She published the pamphlet Southern Horrors later in 1892, working off of what she had written for the Age and providing additional details. In a sense, Wells practiced what today is often lauded as data journalism, as she scrupulously kept records and was able to document the large numbers of lynchings which were taking place in America. Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s parents, freed from slavery shortly… In 1920, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, investigative journalist and an early leader in the civil rights leader, published an account of the riot and the legal aftermath in a book titled " The Arkansas Race Riot." . As a consequence their vote is entirely nullified throughout the entire South. Wells M y great-grandmother Ida B. Ida was left to raise her five surviving siblings. Wells continued her reporting, writing for The New York Age, the Chicago Daily Inter-Ocean, The Conservator, and many other newspapers. Hardcover "The Red Record" by Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Wells, born in 1863 and barely two years old when the Emancipation Proclamation freed her from the slavery she was born into. Wells, was an anti-lynching activist, a muckraking journalist, a lecturer, an activist for racial justice, and a suffragette.She wrote about racial justice issues for Memphis newspapers as a reporter and newspaper owner, as well as other articles about politics and issues of race for … Wells was already out of town when she realized that an editorial she’d written had caused a riot. Among Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s achievements were the publication of a detailed book about lynching entitled A Red Record (1895), the cofounding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the founding of what may have been the first Black women’s suffrage group. Collecting her information from two New Orleans newspapers, Wells-Barnett recounts in graphic detail the events of one particularly violent week in early 20th century New Orleans during which a mob "roamed the streets day and night, searching for colored men and women, whom they beat, shot and killed at will." Ida died from kidney disease in Chicago on March 25, 1931. 171 18 She married Ferdinand Barnett in 1898. ), Southern Horrors Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Both women actively campaigned for African American women voting rights and were politically connected to the national suffrage movement. Wells, 1892-1900, Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. 1862 Born enslaved July 16 in Holly Springs, Mississippi, Ida B. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format. Duster is the author of the forthcoming book Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. 8 She stands as one of our nation's most uncompromising leaders and most ardent defenders of democracy. Wells Barnett, Mob Rule in New Orleans Robert Charles and His Fight to Death, the Story of His Life, Burning Human Beings Alive, Other Lynching Statistics, ( She was 21 and a public school teacher. Southern Horrors and Other Writings book. Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, editor and anti-lynching activist, was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, on July 16, 1862. Wells became an exile from Memphis, Tennessee in 1892. One September day in 1883, Ida B. Ida B. 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