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    2002 became the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Museum. The Wells family lived elsewhere on the property. Ground plans on display in the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Museum...
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    Truth Ida B. Wells National Monument was dedicated in the neighborhood in 2022. Named for African American journalist and newspaper editor Ida B. Wells, the...
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    Interchange, where it meets Interstate 90 (I-90), I-94 and I-290. At Wells Street, Ida B. Wells Drive continues as a surface street past State Street and Michigan...
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    The Ida B. Wells-Barnett House was the residence of civil rights advocate Ida B. Wells (1862–1931) and her husband Ferdinand Lee Barnett from 1919 to 1930...
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    Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School (IBWHS; colloquially Wells High School) is a public high school in Portland, Oregon, United States. The school is located...
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    Alfreda Duster (category Ida B. Wells)
    activist Ida B. Wells and as the editor of her mother's posthumously published autobiography, Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells (1970)...
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    journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931): "The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them". It was unveiled in 2021 by the Ida B. Wells Commemorative...
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    Mississippi, USA. It is home to the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Museum, named for former slave, journalist, and suffragist Ida B. Wells. The house is located at 220...
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    Ida B. Wells Continuation High School is a public high school in San Francisco, California, located on Alamo Square near the Hayes Valley neighborhood...
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    Ferdinand Lee Barnett (Chicago) (category Ida B. Wells)
    Illinois, he also became a successful lawyer. In 1895, Barnett married Ida B. Wells, a fellow journalist and anti-lynching activist. In 1896, he became Illinois'...
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    including Ida B. Wells, Mary Burnett Talbert and Angelina Grimké. The bill exposed both lynching and the effects it had on the people. Ida B. Wells was a...
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    along with Ron Nixon, Corey Johnson, and Topher Sanders, launched the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, in Memphis, Tennessee, in 2016,...
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    prominent African Americans, including postman Thomas Moss, a friend of Ida B. Wells and Mary Church Terrell. By the 1890s, there were increasing racial tensions...
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    Edward W. Carmack (category Ida B. Wells)
    an interesting dialogue with another famous Tennessee journalist, Ida B. Wells. Wells, known as the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement", was also not...
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    Andrew "Rube" Foster, founder of the Negro National Baseball League; Ida B. Wells, a civil rights activist, journalist and co-organizer of the NAACP; Margaret...
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    Patricia Ann Schechter, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880–1930 (U of North Carolina Press, 2001). David L. Lewis, W.E.B. Du Bois: A biography...
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  • Michelle Duster (category Ida B. Wells)
    biography, Ida B. The Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy Of Ida B. Wells, about her great-grandmother. She has also edited two anthologies of Wells' writing...
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    resting place of several famous Americans including Harold Washington, Ida B. Wells, Jesse Owens, and Enrico Fermi. It is also the setting for a mass grave...
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    the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement (1988) and Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching (2008). Paula Jane Giddings...
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  • in October 1994. Morse was dropped from a high-rise building in the Ida B. Wells Homes by ten-year-old Jesse Rankins and 11-year-old Tykeece Johnson....
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  • rights activist Ida B. Wells. Troy Duster is the son of Alfreda Duster (née Barnett) and Benjamin C. Duster Jr. and grandson of Ida B. Wells. He was able...
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    known as the Loop. The heart of Printers Row is generally defined by Ida B. Wells Drive on the north, Polk Street on the south, Plymouth Court on the east...
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  • four buildings. Most of the campus is contained in an area bounded by Ida B. Wells Drive, State Street, Roosevelt Road, and Michigan Avenue. Many of Columbia's...
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  • women delegation; prominent African-American journalist and activist Ida B. Wells confronts the organizers to declare her intention to march with her own...
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  • the Jane Byrne Interchange with Interstate 290 (Eisenhower Expressway/Ida B. Wells Drive) and the Dan Ryan Expressway (also I-90/94) at the east end, and...
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    Ryan, Kennedy and Eisenhower Expressways (I-90/I-94 and I-290), and Ida B. Wells Drive. In a dedication ceremony held on August 29, 2014, the interchange...
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    "Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Her Passion for Justice". Duke University. Archived from the original on May 8, 2017. Retrieved May 18, 2017. "Ida B. Wells"...
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    Station as well as River City and the former site of Grand Central Station on the other side. Between Ida B. Wells Drive and Erie Street, Wells Street only...
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  • 1884, a train conductor with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ordered Ida B. Wells to give up her seat in the first-class ladies' car and move to the smoking...
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    In 2024 she began starring as journalist and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells in the musical Suffs. James was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance...
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