Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931
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- Organization: Shaw University (Holly Springs, Miss.)
- Organization: Negro Fellowship League
- Organization: Alpha Suffrage Club (Ill.)
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found: On lynchings, 1969.
found: LC data base, 1-13-86(hdg.: Barnett, Ida B. Wells, 1862-1931, usage: Ida B. Wells; Ida B. Wells-Barnett)
found: Enc. of Amer. Biog., 1974:p. 1178 (Wells-Barnett, Ida B.)
found: To tell the truth freely, 2009:ECIP galley (Ida B. Wells; her journalistic pen name was Iola)
found: Black Women in America, Second Edition, accessed September 19, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Wells-Barnett, Ida B.; Ida Bell Wells-Barnett; slave, civil rights activist, newspaper editor/publisher; born 16 July 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi, United States; trained at Shaw University in Holly Springs (renamed Rust College); editor, Memphis Free Speech and Headlight (1889); president of the Ida B. Wells Club; opened the Negro Fellowship League (1910); signed the 1909 call for the formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; organized the Alpha Suffrage Club, Illinois (1913); delegate to the National American Woman Suffrage Association's suffrage parade (3 March 1913), Washington, D.C.; ran unsuccessfully for the Illinois senate as an independent candidate (1930); died 25 March 1931 in Chicago, Illinois, United States)
found: Wikipedia, 9 Sept. 2020(Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, born July 16, 1862 in Holly Springs, Miss., died March 25, 1931 in Chicago, Ill., aged 68; an American investigative journalist, educator, and an early leader in the civil rights movement; one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); over the course of a lifetime dedicated to combating prejudice and violence, and the fight for African American equality, especially that of women, Wells arguably became the most famous black woman in America) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_B._Wells found: Wikipedia, 8 Sept. 2020:in an entry for NAACP (The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey and Ida B. Wells; its mission in the 21st century is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination") - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAACP
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