Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells-Barnett was born in holly springs, Mississippi in 1862 and died March 25, 1931, in Chicago, Illinois. She was born a slave and the oldest of seven children. Even though they were enslaved at the time her parents were able to support their seven children, because her mother was a famous cook & her father was a very skilled carpenter. Around the age of fourteen Ida parents died in an epidemic of yellow fever that came through holly springs. Her parent’s death caused her to be in charge of keeping the family together, she then moved to Memphis to work as a teacher to support her family. She still then manage to keep her education by attending a nearby college.
In 1889 she then becomes a partner of the free speech and headlight. 3 years later three of her friends were lynched. She then wrote on racial justice for a Memphis newspapers as a reporter and newspaper owner, she was later forced to …show more content…
Later in the years DuBois set out to get rid of most of the white members and directors of the NAACP. He was ordered by the US Department of justice to register as a foreign principle and if he refused he would immediately indicted under foreign agents Registration Act. He resided in Ghana until his death by then he became an official member of the communist party and a Ghanaian citizen.
Ida B Wells was a journalist and politician she mainly chose politics as a way to enhance civil rights. WEB DuBois encouraged both political action and higher education. In 1906 Wells, DuBois, and others furthered the Niagara movement and she one of two African American women to sign “the call” to form the NAACP in 1909. He and Dubois was among the few black leaders to explicitly oppose Booker T. Washington and his strategies. They both were founders of the NAACP an had wrote thing against
Ida B. Wells-Barnett was born in holly springs, Mississippi in 1862 and died March 25, 1931, in Chicago, Illinois. She was born a slave and the oldest of seven children. Even though they were enslaved at the time her parents were able to support their seven children, because her mother was a famous cook & her father was a very skilled carpenter. Around the age of fourteen Ida parents died in an epidemic of yellow fever that came through holly springs. Her parent’s death caused her to be in charge of keeping the family together, she then moved to Memphis to work as a teacher to support her family. She still then manage to keep her education by attending a nearby college.
In 1889 she then becomes a partner of the free speech and headlight. 3 years later three of her friends were lynched. She then wrote on racial justice for a Memphis newspapers as a reporter and newspaper owner, she was later forced to …show more content…
Later in the years DuBois set out to get rid of most of the white members and directors of the NAACP. He was ordered by the US Department of justice to register as a foreign principle and if he refused he would immediately indicted under foreign agents Registration Act. He resided in Ghana until his death by then he became an official member of the communist party and a Ghanaian citizen.
Ida B Wells was a journalist and politician she mainly chose politics as a way to enhance civil rights. WEB DuBois encouraged both political action and higher education. In 1906 Wells, DuBois, and others furthered the Niagara movement and she one of two African American women to sign “the call” to form the NAACP in 1909. He and Dubois was among the few black leaders to explicitly oppose Booker T. Washington and his strategies. They both were founders of the NAACP an had wrote thing against