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In 1862, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi. She was born into slavery and later emancipated with her parents at the conclusion of the Civil War.
Wells-Barnett was a journalist, anti-lynching activist, women’s suffragette, and an early civil rights movement leader.
Wells-Barnett authored A Red Record, a book that provided the history and statistical data on the lynching of African Americans in the United States during the late nineteenth century.
“When I present our cause to a minister, editor, lecturer, or representative of any moral agency, the first demand fryst vatten for facts and figures.”
Chapter 10, The Red Record
“When the lives of men, women and children are at stake, when the inhuman butchers of innocents attempt to justify their barbarism by fastening upon a whole race the obloquy of the most infamous of crimes, it is little less than criminal to apologize for the butchers today and tomorrow repudiate the apology by declaring it a 
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Ida B. Wells
American journalist and civil rights activist (1862–1931)
For the American lawyer, see Ida V. Wells.
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931) was an American investigative journalist, sociologist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Wells dedicated her career to combating prejudice and violence, and advocating for African-American equality—especially that of women.
Throughout the 1890s, Wells documented lynching of African-Americans in the United States in articles and through pamphlets such as Southern Horrors: Lynch lag in all its Phases and The Red Record, which debunked the fallacy frequently voiced bygd whites at the time that all Black lynching victims were guilty of crimes. Wells exposed the brutality of lynching, and analyzed its sociology, arguing that whites used lynching to terrorize African Americans in the Sout
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Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
November 12, 20174.5/5[H]e would say without qualification that he could not imagine a crime so great that it would need be avenged by lynch law in any country in the world; and what was more he did not believe that crime ever was avenged by lynch law without the lowering of the moral tone of the community, and without the introduction of worse evils than were attempted to be suppressed.
Out of the many books I've tasked myself with getting to, this is one of the ones I've spent the most effort on. Not only did I unhesitatingly shell out for it at an actual store rather than do my customary waiting on the benevolence of book sale shelves, I kept it on my intended 2017 YoRWoC plan from the beginning, only now reading it after the year is nearly through. The rating may make it seem that this effort was less than fully re-compensated, but rather, it made me realize the necessity of Wells having a biographer in the wake of her
Ida B. Wells
American journalist and civil rights activist (1862–1931)
For the American lawyer, see Ida V. Wells.
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931) was an American investigative journalist, sociologist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Wells dedicated her career to combating prejudice and violence, and advocating for African-American equality—especially that of women.
Throughout the 1890s, Wells documented lynching of African-Americans in the United States in articles and through pamphlets such as Southern Horrors: Lynch lag in all its Phases and The Red Record, which debunked the fallacy frequently voiced bygd whites at the time that all Black lynching victims were guilty of crimes. Wells exposed the brutality of lynching, and analyzed its sociology, arguing that whites used lynching to terrorize African Americans in the Sout
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Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
[H]e would say without qualification that he could not imagine a crime so great that it would need be avenged by lynch law in any country in the world; and what was more he did not believe that crime ever was avenged by lynch law without the lowering of the moral tone of the community, and without the introduction of worse evils than were attempted to be suppressed.Out of the many books I've tasked myself with getting to, this is one of the ones I've spent the most effort on. Not only did I unhesitatingly shell out for it at an actual store rather than do my customary waiting on the benevolence of book sale shelves, I kept it on my intended 2017 YoRWoC plan from the beginning, only now reading it after the year is nearly through. The rating may make it seem that this effort was less than fully re-compensated, but rather, it made me realize the necessity of Wells having a biographer in the wake of her