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Ida B.

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About Me

"I'd rather go down in history as one lone Negro who dared to tell the government that it had done a dastardly thing than to save my skin by taking back what I have said. I would consider it an honor to spend whatever years are necessary in prison as the one member of the race who protested, rather than to be with all the 11,999,999 Negroes who didn't have to go to prison because they kept their mouths shut."- 1917

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Bishop Henry McNeal Turner, Mary Church Terrell, Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, Marcus Garvey, and YOU ...

My Blog

1893: Blacks Excluded from Colombian Expo

This year marks the 400th anniversary of Columbus discovering America. To celebrate this historic event, the United States hosted the 1893 World's Colombian Exposition, which displayed the progression...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:28:00 GMT

Court Ruling Overturned

Five days after the decision of Wells v. Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad, the Tennessee Supreme Court overturned their decision, which was previously in favor of Wells. Railroad officia...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:11:00 GMT

May 1892: Mob destroys Memphis Free Speech

Following the scathing articles published by Ida B. Wells in the black newspaper, The Memphis Free Speech, a violent mob burned the offices of the newspaper to the ground. Luckily, Ms. Wells, speaking...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:11:00 GMT

1884: Legal Victory for Black Equality

The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled in favor of Ida B. Wells in the case of Wells v. Chesapeake Ohio and Southwest Railroad. Young activist, Ida B. Wells, sitting in the ladies car of a...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:09:00 GMT