Dear Sister Marilyn !
My Mother told me if I did not post this then I would get a spanking - LOL - We must remember that woman are God's vessels to bring new life into this world. I actually saw the birth of my son and cut the cord and it was a miracle I will never forget till the day I die !
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett
July 16, 1862 - March 25, 1931
born Holy Springs, Mississippi
Slave parents, lost parents and 3
siblings to yellow fever at 14*, Rust University and Fisk University, became
teacher, refused to give up her seat for the colored section and sued railroad
in 1880s, wrote articles, pen name "Iola", led national campaign against
lynching, her Memphis newspaper, office was mobbed and destroyed 1892, lectured
and organized clubs, protested exclusion of Blacks from World's Columbian
Exposition 1894, married lawyer, 4 children, founded Alpha Suffrage Club of
Chicago with Black suffragists, marched in Washington, D.C. 1913 and Chicago
1916 suffrage parades, Chicago probation officer 1913-1916, ally of W.E.B.
DuBois, felt NAACP was not outspoken enough.
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