Darlene Maciel
Women Studies
This altar is dedicated to Ida Barnett Wells, Civil Activist, and Journalist
1862-1931
Ida Barnett Wells was courage’s women who fought for what she believed in; her beliefs were strong and powerful. Her background shaped who she was and had become. Wells was the daughter of James and Lizze Wells, slaves who were living in Mississippi, whom which were freed a couple months after Ida was born. Even though they were freed salves, they still encountered injustice rules and were still restricted from rules and practices that the states were used to. Her family was active Republicans during the Reconstruction. Her father was a very educated man who managed to start Rust College, which was a university for the salves, …show more content…
What best way then by writing articles which told the tragic stories of the lynching, just like how she had been a suspect of dear friends lynching incident. She gathered further information and tallied the following information, “Her findings documented the alarming high occurrence of lynching’s and the rather ridiculous charges filed against black men. For example, she found that in 1894 "197 persons were put to death by mobs that gave the victims no opportunity to make a lawful defense" (Sterling, D). This enactment made her write about these stories, just like Bell Hook states a revolutionist feminist would do the following, “Understanding the way male domination and sexism was expressed in everyday life created awareness in women of the ways we were victimized, exploited, and, in worse case scenarios, oppressed” (Hooks 7). That exactly is what Wells, wanted she was not just fighting to get the word out for what was happening to woman but also men. It was a chance to let the public know about what was happening. With people whom she had known, she started protests and campaigns against lynching. She was working on behalf all women and men working with organizations, such as the National Association of Colored women to the Association of Advancement of Colored people (Baker). Ida B. Wells passed away on March of 1931, but she left such a …show more content…
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics. Massachusetts: Cambridge, 2000. Print.
Sterling, D. (1988). Black Foremothers. New York: The Feminist Press.
Duster, A. (Ed.) (1970). Crusade for justice: The autobiography of Ida B. Wells.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Lee D. Baker, April 1996. (ldbaker at acpub.duke.edu) Source: Franklin, Vincent P. 1995
Living Our Stories, Telling Our Truths: Autobiography and the Making of
African American Intellectual Tradition. 1995: Oxford University Press.
"Ida Bell Wells-Barnett." Bio. A&E Television Networks, 2014. Web. 02 Nov.
Women Studies
This altar is dedicated to Ida Barnett Wells, Civil Activist, and Journalist
1862-1931
Ida Barnett Wells was courage’s women who fought for what she believed in; her beliefs were strong and powerful. Her background shaped who she was and had become. Wells was the daughter of James and Lizze Wells, slaves who were living in Mississippi, whom which were freed a couple months after Ida was born. Even though they were freed salves, they still encountered injustice rules and were still restricted from rules and practices that the states were used to. Her family was active Republicans during the Reconstruction. Her father was a very educated man who managed to start Rust College, which was a university for the salves, …show more content…
What best way then by writing articles which told the tragic stories of the lynching, just like how she had been a suspect of dear friends lynching incident. She gathered further information and tallied the following information, “Her findings documented the alarming high occurrence of lynching’s and the rather ridiculous charges filed against black men. For example, she found that in 1894 "197 persons were put to death by mobs that gave the victims no opportunity to make a lawful defense" (Sterling, D). This enactment made her write about these stories, just like Bell Hook states a revolutionist feminist would do the following, “Understanding the way male domination and sexism was expressed in everyday life created awareness in women of the ways we were victimized, exploited, and, in worse case scenarios, oppressed” (Hooks 7). That exactly is what Wells, wanted she was not just fighting to get the word out for what was happening to woman but also men. It was a chance to let the public know about what was happening. With people whom she had known, she started protests and campaigns against lynching. She was working on behalf all women and men working with organizations, such as the National Association of Colored women to the Association of Advancement of Colored people (Baker). Ida B. Wells passed away on March of 1931, but she left such a …show more content…
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics. Massachusetts: Cambridge, 2000. Print.
Sterling, D. (1988). Black Foremothers. New York: The Feminist Press.
Duster, A. (Ed.) (1970). Crusade for justice: The autobiography of Ida B. Wells.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Lee D. Baker, April 1996. (ldbaker at acpub.duke.edu) Source: Franklin, Vincent P. 1995
Living Our Stories, Telling Our Truths: Autobiography and the Making of
African American Intellectual Tradition. 1995: Oxford University Press.
"Ida Bell Wells-Barnett." Bio. A&E Television Networks, 2014. Web. 02 Nov.