Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a prominent African American journalist, educator, and civil rights activist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She is best known for her courageous work in documenting lynching in the United States through her investigative journalism and pamphlets, including "Southern Horrors" and "The Red Record." Wells-Barnett was also a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and fought for women's suffrage. Her legacy continues to inspire movements for justice and equality.

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THE CASE STATED The student of American sociology will find the year 1894 marked by a pronounced awakening of the public conscience to a system of anarchy and outlawry which had grown during a series of ten years to be so common, that scenes of unusual brutality failed to have any visible effect upon the humane sentiments of the people of our land. Beginning with the emancipation of the Negro, the... more...

HON. FRED. DOUGLASS'S LETTER Dear Miss Wells: Let me give you thanks for your faithful paper on the lynch abomination now generally practiced against colored people in the South. There has been no word equal to it in convincing power. I have spoken, but my word is feeble in comparison. You give us what you know and testify from actual knowledge. You have dealt with the facts with cool, painstaking... more...

INTRODUCTION Immediately after the awful barbarism which disgraced the State of Georgia in April of last year, during which time more than a dozen colored people were put to death with unspeakable barbarity, I published a full report showing that Sam Hose, who was burned to death during that time, never committed a criminal assault, and that he killed his employer in self-defense. Since that time I... more...