Ida B. Wells

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/11/2021
  

  My Great-Grandmother Ida B. Wells Left a Legacy of Activism in Education. We Need that Now

  by Michelle Duster

  Activists like Ida B. Wells understood that access to education was critical to all other missions of African American advancement, but systemic inequality has persisted since emancipation.

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• 1/17/2020
  

  Confronting "Who We Are"

  by Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson

  The Capitol riots should prompt consideration of how racism is sustained by mainstream institutions and operates through everyday patterns of thought and action, as much as in open eruptions of violence. 

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• SOURCE: PBS News Hour
  8/25/2020
  

  This Ida B. Wells Mosaic is also a Monument to Women’s Suffrage

  While women of color have been sometimes overlooked throughout history, you can’t miss suffragist and civil rights icon Ida B. Wells inside Washington, D.C.’s Union Station right now.

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• SOURCE: Nashville Tennessean
  7/30/2020
  

  Southern Newspapers were Vocal Supporters of the Confederacy. It Lasted for Generations

  For most of American history, newspapers in the South supported the people and systems that promoted and maintained prejudice and discrimination.

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• 8/2/2020
  

  The Mississippi Flag and the Shadow of Lynching

  by David T.Z. Mindich

  Lynching helped to raise the odious flag in 1894.  But in 2020, hundreds of thousands of marchers protesting the lynching of George Floyd brought the flag down. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/7/2020
  

  Ida B. Wells Won the Pulitzer. Here’s Why that Matters.

  by Sarah L. Silkey

  President Trump continues the long history of trying to delegitimize black women journalists.  

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• SOURCE: Equal Justice Initiative
  5/4/2020
  

  Ida B. Wells Honored with Posthumous Pulitzer

  Ida B. Wells's pioneering role as a journalist on the front lines of struggle against racist terrorism at the nadir of American race relations was posthumously recognized with a Pulitzer Prize yesterday. 

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• 6/25/19
  

  10 Things To Check Out At the Library of Congress’s New Exhibit on Women’s Suffrage

  by Andrew Fletcher

  Highlights from the exhibit on women's suffrage at the Library of Congress. 

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• SOURCE: The North Star
  4/28/19
  

  The Legacy Of Ida B. Wells And The Struggle For Racial Justice At ‘Ole Miss’

  by Michelle Duster

  Ida B. Wells was a pioneer of data journalism who worked relentlessly to shed light on the brutalities of lynching.