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| A passion for justice |
What did she do?
What didn’t she do?
She was a journalist, writer,
editor, feminist, anti-racist and crusader against the horrors of
lynching. She was one of the earliest
leaders of the nascent Civil Rights movement and was tireless in her efforts to
improve the lives of her fellow blacks, despite her humble beginnings.
From an unofficial biography that can be accessed here:
Ida B. Wells-Barnett ranks among
the most important founders of modern civil rights and feminist movements among
African Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century United
States. Her importance is both intellectual and social; the ideas she expressed
and organizations she helped organize have endured to this day. Her analysis of
lynching in the 1890s, especially of mob murder of black men wrongly accused of
raping white women, has held up to the scrutiny of generations of scholars and
activists, as have the organizations she helped shape: the National Association
of Colored Women (1896) and the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (1909)
She was also one of the founding
members of the NAACP together with WEB Dubois. She squeezed an impressive list
of accomplishments into her short time on this earth. Her list of writings has
an amazing breadth and depth that is almost unparalleled.
Her full body of work can be seen at the link below:
Greatest quote:
The people must know before they can act,
and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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