#idabwellsbarnett

[bearwithjetpack]

Many thanks to Jessica Spring @springtidepress and Chandler O’Leary @drawntheroad for this inspirational broadside this is a close up) from their Dead Feminists project @deadfeminists - - The heroine is Ida B. Wells (a former slave turned activist) and her message is “the way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” I can’t help but think about how important it is to vote, no matter what or how, so we can collectively work towards “righting the wrongs” we’re experiencing everyday in our country. #turnthelightoftruthuponthem #idabwellsbarnett #votebidenharris2020 #votedemocrat2020 #deadfeminsts #letterpress #letterpressprinting #democracyinaction #protestposters #blm #blmmovement (at Orlando, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CD_kRGlBF3k/?igshid=1fujd748wsd10

[solinagalo]

Ida B Wells was one of the founders of the NAACP. She lived from 1862 to 1931. We still remember her today as someone who fought for civil rights. Are you fighting for civil rights? - #idabwells #idabwellsbarnett #civilrights#itsnotoveryet #keepfightingforwhatisright #istandwithyou #writeyourofficials #donatetoday #raiseawareness #tellblackstories #teachblackhistory #weareconnected #ifnotnowwhen #ifnotmethenwho #nowisthetime #whatwedotothewebwedotoourselves #bethechangeyouwanttosee #wecanmakeadifference https://www.instagram.com/p/CBCmEcPBCrj/?igshid=1isa1otfeny5u

[weehughie]

As true now as it was then... • • #astruenowasitwasthen #idabwells #idabwellsbarnett #thewaytorightwrongsistoturnthelightoftruthuponthem #nmaahc #nationalmuseumofafricanamericanhistoryandculture #civilrights #civilrightsmovement #naacp #africanamerican #africanamericanhistory #tuskegeeairmen #tuskegee #stearman #boeingstearman #ww2 #worldwar2 #history #culture #historyandculture #respect #smithsonian #smithsonianmuseum #smithsonianinstitution #washington #washingtondc #nationallmall (at Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture) https://www.instagram.com/p/B20_1a7BnzW/?igshid=g5ak4n7czfu7

[rootsreggaehub]

Light up the truth today reggae family! 🔥 🕯 💡 Ida B. Wells. Educator, Journalist, Author and Activist. Ida Wells was born a slave in Holy Springs, Missisippi, USA in 1862. He parents were also born as slaves. What made Ida stand out in her time was that the brutalities and the lynchings that were taking place on African Americans during the late 1800s and early 1900s she spoke about strongly and forcefully. She had also written about it in newspapers geared for the black community such as Free Speech and Headlight. Ida was also very outspoken about issues relating to segregation. This was an era that blacks were not allowed to mix with whites and there were also many no go areas that blacks weren't allowed in. Their was lots of attacks on blacks by whites in #Memphis, and Ida urged them to leave there with immediate effect. She was the mouthpiece for blacks at that time and she fought their cause. It was in 1896 that she founded the National Association Of Colored Woman's Clubs, and she co-founded the National Afro-American Council. Ida's father, a carpenter, was a stance supporter of black rights but never ran for office. This was where Ida got her political vision and head from, as she would become an early pioneer of the #CivilRights Movement. It was from there that African Americans began to voice their issues around #racism and the many prejudices that they had to live with. It was Ida's idea that blacks got lynched by whites due to them trying to compete with them rather than criminal acts commited by blacks - as whites confessed. Among her books, and there are several, her unfinished autobiography - Crusade For Justice: Autobiography Of Ida B. Wells, #SouthernHorrors And Other Writings, and On Lynchings. Ida was also active in various woman rights organizations and movements as well as woman sufferage, where she spoke up and faught for women who were discriminated against and abused. #TuesdayTruth .

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#BHM #BlackHistory #Herstory #blackhistorymonth #southernbelle #idabwellsbarnett #womensrights #eachoneteachone #equality #journalist

#blackgirlmagic #humanity #author #legacy

#reggaefam #empressoftheday #1love❤️💚💛👆👆🙌🙌 #RootsReggaeHub #givethanks

[rabbisandra]

“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” ― Ida B. Wells-Barnett 💕 Seventy years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her sit on a bus to a white man and move to the back of the bus there was Ida B. Wells.Riding a train in 1884, she was asked by a conductor to move from her seat in the ladies' car to the smoking car. When she refused, it took three men to remove Wells from her seat. She immediately hired a lawyer to bring suit against the railroad, winning 500-dollars in damages. The decision was later overturned she spent the rest of her life fighting injustice.💕 I learned about Ida B. Wells when I started studying sociology she was a pioneer in the field of sociological research. She documented and advocated against the lynching of African Americans in the South. In order to make her case she conducted what may have been the first formal field studies of lynchings. She accumulated statistics on the frequencies of lynchings she discovered that occurrences of lynchings were not so much due to perceived or actual incidents of sexual interaction between black men and white American women, but to vast increases in the business activity and economic success of African Americans residing in or near communities where lynchings occurred. she stands as a pioneer figure in sociological research. Thank you Ida B. Wells-Barnet #blackhistorymonth . . . . . . . . . . . . #blackhistory #africanamericanhistory #idabwells #segregation #civilrights #justice #blackwomen #idabwellsbarnett #quote #inspiration #rosaparks #history

[sablesouls]

⚜️Ida B. Wells-Barnett ⚜️was a woman ahead of her time—courageous, independent, assertive, and outspoken. Born a slave, she later became the owner and editor of her own Southern newspaper, crusading at great personal risk against the illegal lynching of blacks and the injustice of segregation. Devoting herself to black progress and racial equality, she played a leading role in the black women’s club movement as well as the creation of national organizations. But her determination made her incapable of compromise with fellow black and white reformers who chose to take a more accommodating approach, and her influence waned within many of the same organizations that she had helped found. #sablesouls #blackhistory #idabwellsbarnett #idabwells #lynching #southern #newspaper #journalism #journalist #blackgirlmagic

[ushypocrisy]

Celebrating the Life of Ida B. Wells

For Women’s History Month, we celebrate the life and legacy of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, whose life’s work documenting the horrors of lynching of African Americans in the United States undoubtedly helped pave the way for the American Civil Rights Movement of the mid-20th century. Wells was a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (N.A.A.C.P.) in 1909, and…