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Alfreda M. Duster (née Barnett; September 3, 1904 – April 2, 1983) was an American social worker and civic leader in Chicago. [2] [3] She is best known as the youngest daughter of civil rights activist Ida B. Wells and as the editor of her mother's posthumously published autobiography, Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells ...
News & Ideas. Alfreda Barnett Duster Oral History Interview. Alfreda Barnett Duster (1904–1983) was a social worker and community activist in Chicago. She is the daughter of civil rights leaders Ida B. Wells and Ferdinand L. Barnett. Duster served as the Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Coordinator, assigned to the Southside Community Committee.
She was a Black social worker, editor, and civic leader. Alfreda Barnett was born in Chicago, the youngest daughter of civil rights activists Ida B. Wells and Ferdinand L. Barnett . She graduated from the University of Chicago in 1924 with a Bachelor of Philosophy degree. She married Benjamin C. Duster Jr., a clerk in her father's law firm, and ...
Alfreda Duster. As social worker, mother, and civic leader, Alfreda Barnett Duster worked tirelessly to improve conditions in her neighborhood and community and to provide an environment capable of enriching and nourishing the lives of all people, especially the young.
Apr 19, 2022 · Alfreda Marguerita Duster formerly Barnett. Born 3 Sep 1904 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. Ancestors. Daughter of Ferdinand Lee Barnett and Ida Bell (Wells) Barnett. Sister of Ferdinand Lee Barnett [half], Albert Graham Barnett [half], Charles Aked Barnett, Herman Kohlsaat Barnett and Ida Bell Wells Barnett.
Jul 23, 1991 · In 2020, a special Pulitzer Prize was awarded to Wells for “her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching.”. Alfreda M. Duster (1904–1983), daughter of Ida B. Wells, was a social worker, mother, and civic leader in Chicago.
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Edited by Alfreda M. Duster. With a New Foreword by Eve L. Ewing and a New Afterword by Michelle Duster. Ida B. Wells is an American icon of truth telling. Born to slaves, she was a pioneer of investigative journalism, a crusader against lynching, and a tireless advocate for suffrage, both for women and for African Americans.
