Ida Bell Wells-Barnett

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1. Lynch Law in All Its Phases

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2. I just finished watching this…

It's a no-brainer to say, "history repeats itself". But, in all the history that's been lost to any book I ever read until recently, we would never be reminded of this.

I'm gonna watch the other one (bookmarking)

Thank you, s4p.

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3. I've been referencing her in posts all week

Notably, her attempt to march with other (white) women side by side in support of the woman's suffrage movement at their famous 1913 march. And she and other black women were denied by the so called "progressive" organizers unless they went to the back of the line because they could not have an "integrated" march. The issue was of "expediency" in order to attract southern white women into the movement and of course, blacks were considered non-entities, where their overt inclusion could potentially impact the push for a Constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote. Ida didn't bother to listen to that bull and joined the march mid-stream by stepping out from the midst of the spectators lining the streets, and walking with the others along the route.

There are a bunch of good video bios of her and hope that others get chance to see them. You really do see history repeating itself over and over.

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4. I knew her name, of course, but had no idea how brilliant, determined, and effective she was

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5. She was determined

despite the threats, in her anti-lynching campaign. Basically the main voice out there that they were trying to silence. I had posted an excerpt from here - http://www.lib.niu.edu/1996/iht319630.html

She eventually settled in Illinois and that particular college has a curriculum on her. One of her publications, which was on the statistics of lynching ("The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States&quot is actually available in the public domain on Guttenberg.org as an ebook - http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14977/14977-h/14977-h.htm

The HBO film "Iron Jawed Angels" about the suffragan movement, actually had a couple scenes featuring her and the incident surrounding the 1913 march.

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6. You can look back at the 1950s and 1960s and almost see the face of Ida Bell Wells-Barnett

staring at you from the other side of those struggles

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7. K & R. Thank you for this. Much more should be known of Ida Wells, a courageous woman

whose activism was major. Her travel to England in 1893 at the invitation of Quakers did much to spread knowledge of terrible Jim Crow lynching and violence against blacks in the US. Frederick Douglass, who she knew had also traveled earlier to the UK to speak about his book and slavery in the US.