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Carrying Ida B. Wells' truth forward: a fearless press, civil rights & a new generation of truth-tellers. The movement behind the film WELLS 🎬 #RiseWithWells

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"One had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a trap." Ida B. Wells. She wrote it after a mob destroyed her paper. She kept writing.

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They lynched her friend and called it justice. Ida B. Wells called it a lie, and set out to prove it: Southern Horrors, then The Red Record. A mob destroyed her paper. She kept writing.

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They told Black women the vote wasn't for them. Ida B. Wells built a club to prove them wrong: the Alpha Suffrage Club, 1913 Chicago. A vote was never just a vote. It was power. Carry it forward.

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From her first pamphlet in 1892 to the NAACP in 1909, Ida B. Wells told this truth for 16 years before the country built the institutions to fight it. She was early because she was right.

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Her method was simple and radical: document everything. Names, dates, places. Ida B. Wells built the case with facts, so no one could call it rumor.

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What year did Ida B. Wells publish A Red Record, her statistical expose of lynching in America? Guess below.

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"The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press." Ida B. Wells. Why she gave her life to journalism.

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How many years before Rosa Parks did Ida B. Wells refuse to give up her train seat? Drop your guess.

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Memphis made Ida B. Wells a journalist, then a mob destroyed her paper and warned her never to return. She kept publishing from the North. You can drive out the printer, not the truth.

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In 1895 Ida B. Wells published A Red Record, a statistical study of lynching in America. Names, dates, places. She turned grief into evidence, and evidence into a movement.

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