{"id":974,"date":"2010-12-10T02:09:17","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T07:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/?p=974"},"modified":"2011-03-16T23:06:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T04:06:59","slug":"ida-bell-wells-barnett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/2010\/12\/10\/ida-bell-wells-barnett\/","title":{"rendered":"1892 (Arguing for Justice) Ida Bell Wells"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (House Divided)<\/p><\/div>\n

Life & Family<\/strong>
\nHer parents died from yellow fever in 1878. Wells married Ferdinand L. Barnett in 1895 and had four children: Charles, Herman, Ida, and Alfreda.<\/p>\n

Sources <\/strong>
\nAs part of her campaign against lynching, Wells published several pamphlets, including Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases<\/a><\/em> (1892), The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States<\/a><\/em> (1895), and\u00a0Mob Rule In New Orleans: Robert Charles and His Fight to Death, the Story of His Life, Burning Human Beings Alive, Other Lynching Statistics<\/a><\/em> (1900).\u00a0The Ida B. Wells Papers<\/a> are at the Joseph Regenstein Library, University of Chicago. Other important primary sources include Trudier Harris’\u00a0Selected Works of Ida B. Wells-Barnett<\/a><\/em> (1991) and Miriam DeCosta-Willis’\u00a0The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells<\/a><\/em> (1995). Her daughter, Alfreda M. Duster, published\u00a0Her Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells<\/em> in 1970. Important secondary sources include Linda O. McMurry’s To Keep the Waters Troubled: The Life of Ida B. Wells<\/a><\/em> (1998) and James West Davidson’s ‘They say’: Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race<\/a><\/em> (2007).<\/p>\n

Places to Visit<\/strong>
\nA historical marker<\/a> is located on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee. This marker honors Wells\u2019 work as editor of the Memphis Free Speech<\/em>. After her paper published reports about the lynching of three African-American businessmen in 1892, her newspaper’s\u00a0office was destroyed.<\/p>\n

Images<\/strong>
\nWhile the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division has several images<\/a>, only one is\u00a0available\u00a0for download at a high resolution. The New York Public Library Digital Gallery also has several images<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Life & Family Her parents died from yellow fever in 1878. Wells married Ferdinand L. Barnett in 1895 and had four children: Charles, Herman, Ida, and Alfreda. Sources As part of her campaign against lynching, Wells published several pamphlets, including Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1892), The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8648,3975],"tags":[156],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arguing-for-justice","category-memory-meaning-1865-2015","tag-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2793,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions\/2793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}