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Overview. Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice documents the dramatic life and turbulent times of the pioneering African American journalist, activist, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader of the post-Reconstruction period. Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison reads selections from Wells' memoirs and other writings in this winner of more ...
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice (1989, 54 mins.) documents the dramatic life and turbulent times of the pioneering African American journalist, activist, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader of the post-Reconstruction period.
- Introduction to Ida B. Wells: A Passion For Justice
- Ida B. Wells' Early Life
- End of Childhood
- Job in Memphis
- Black Middle Class
- Segregation
- Princess of The Press
- Racism and Power
- Lynch Response
- Go West
Within 20 years after the end of the Civil War, promises were broken. Ida B. Wells, a child of slavery, became a foremost advocate for equality.
Wells was born before the end of the Civil War. Her parents remarried after the war, as free people. Wells and he mother attended school taught by white Northern women.
Ida B. Wells' father was a race activist. After the war, the economy was in chaos. Wells' parents died in a yellow fever epidemic. At 16, she became the breadwinner for her siblings.
At 18, Wells moved to Memphis to take a better-paying job. She joined a black literary society and was elected editor of the Evening Star.
The Ku Klux Klan formed, and hostility reigned. A black middle class emerged and some blacks became legislators. In 1877, the last federal troops left the south; states began enacting laws to oppress blacks.
The oppressive climate radicalized Wells. She refused to give up her seat on a segregate train and sued the railroad after it ejected her. She won $500, but the judgment was overturned.
Wells wrote articles about her case for black newspapers. She became editor and co-owner of the Free Speech. Police tolerated and participated in violence against black Americans. (Graphic images)
Three black men opened a grocery that competed with a white man's store. Police raided the store and the men fired on them. 20 people were arrested and the grocers were lynched. (Graphic images)
Memphis' black community was stunned. One of the men was a dear friend of Wells; she decided to fight back.
Ida B. Wells exhorted blacks to go west to escape the oppressive social and economic structures of Memphis. Thousands left and white businesses suffered.
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