Transcript Ida B. Wells

Ida B. Wells
By: Jonathan Demaree
Honors US History
October 30th, 2014.
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Questions:
 Who is Ida B. Wells?
 What is she well known for?
 How did Ida make an impact on U.S.?
 What was Ida’s role during the Progressive Movement?
 Why was Ida important?
Who is Ida B. Wells?
 On July 16, 1862, Ida B. Wells was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi.
She was born a slave.
 She was well known for the anti-lynching crusade in the United States
in the 1890s. Ida B. Wells was also an African-American journalist and
activist.
 On May 1884, one fateful ride on train from Memphis to Nashville, a
turning point approached Wells. She bought a first-class train ticket
to Nashville, she was irritated when the train crew told her to move to
the car for African Americans, and refused on crews’ belief.
 This caused Wells to write about the issues of race and politics in the
South.
http://www.biography.com/people/ida-b-wells-9527635
What was Ida’s role
during the Progressive
Movement?
 In the 1890s, the development of the black women’s club
movement was repulsed on by hard work to end lynching. Ida B.
Wells-Barnett criticized lynching in the press.
 While she traveled the United States lecturing about lynching, she
also helped to establish black women’s clubs. Many of these clubs
lectured problems similar to those lectured by white women’s
clubs including health, hygiene, education, and women’s
suffering.
 However, black women’s clubs also concentrated on battling
racism. Also, Ida wrote books which inspired black women to fight
for their rights regardless to race.
http://sfbayview.com/2013/03/do-you-know-how-ida-b-wells-has-affected-our-lives/
QUIZ!!!
 What did Ida write about?
 What was she well known for?
 When did she lead the anti-lynching crusade in the United States?
 What happened on May 1884?
 What kind of problems did the black women club mentioned?