Ida B. Wells
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Wells was an American investigative journalist, sociologist, educator and early civil rights leader, and one of the founders of the NAACP.
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7 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 16 Jul 1862, near Holly Springs, Mississippi, into slavery (opens wiqqi.app)
- Died: 25 Mar 1931, Chicago, of kidney disease (opens wiqqi.app)
- Railroad lawsuit: Won $500 in 1884 after being dragged from a first-class car; reversed by the Tennessee Supreme Court in 1887 (opens wiqqi.app)
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Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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17 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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The Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and someone had to show it (opens korrents.com)
“Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.”
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The claim that Black men rape white women is an old, worn-out lie nobody believes (opens korrents.com)
“Nobody in this section of the country believes the old thread-bare lie that Negro men rape white women.”
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Rape was unknown during the Civil War, when white Southern women were at Black men's mercy (opens korrents.com)
“The thinking public will not easily believe freedom and education more brutalizing than slavery, and the world knows that the crime of rape was unknown during four years of civil war, when the white women of the South…”
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The Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and someone had to show it (opens korrents.com)