Cobblestone articles from February 2001

Cobblestone archives from February 2001

More Media.(Ida B. Wells-Barnett is subject of video)
February 1, 2001... The life and times of Ida B. Wells-Barnett is the subject of the video Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice. For more information, contact PBS Home Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698.

On the Web.(Web sites with biography of Ida B. Wells-Barnett)
February 1, 2001... The National Women's Hall of Fame Web page has a site dedicated to the background of Ida B. Wells-Barnett. You can reach it at www.lib. uchicago.edu/e/spcl/ibw.html. www.duke.edu/~ldbaker/classes/ AAIH/caaih/ibwells/ibwbkgrd.html brings...

Places to Visit.(museums and libraries)
February 1, 2001... Great Blacks in Wax Museum, Baltimore, Maryland. This museum presents African American history through exhibits of artifacts and wax figures of black leaders. NAACP Henry Lee Moon Library and National Civil Rights Archives, Baltimore,...

Letters.(poems)
February 1, 2001... Separate but Equal As I look about my town, I find my whole world upside down. I'm reminded of the way it was: Separate but equal, that's how it stood. But still, I look around and hear black keys and...

Books to Read.(books about Ida B. Wells)
February 1, 2001... Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement by Dennis Brindell Fradin and Judith Bloom Fradin (New York: Clarion Books, 2000) explores the achievements of this crusader for justice, especially her writings and speeches against the...

TWO IN ONE.(Ida B. Wells-Barnett and the suffragists march in Washington , D.C.)
February 1, 2001... Suffragists from around the United States gathered in Washington, D.C., on March 3, 1913. Ida B. Wells-Barnett was there, too, intending to march on behalf of both women and African Americans. However, southern white suffragists refused to...

A Final Word.(Ida B. Wells-Barnett took a stand on her beliefs)
February 1, 2001... Ida B. Wells-Barnett's life was threatened because of her outspoken protests. She sometimes was seen as a troublemaker. But, imagine if people were not willing to take a stand when they witnessed an injustice. Would that be a world in which you...

IDA AND FERDINAND: Ahead of Their Time.(Ida B. Wells married attorney Ferdinand Lee Barnett)
February 1, 2001... On the warm Chicago evening of June 27, 1895, Ida B. Wells married Ferdinand Lee Barnett. He was a prominent African American attorney and the owner-editor of the first successful black newspaper in Chicago, the Conservator. The match baffled...

IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT THE LATER YEARS.
February 1, 2001... Ida B. Wells-Barnett blasted her way through fights on issues with which no one else wanted to get involved. She participated in battles knowing she would lose. A strict sense of justice tempered Wells-Barnett's anger, but her outspokenness and...

Did You Know?(remarkable African American women of the late 1800s and early 1900s)
February 1, 2001... Ida B. Wells-Barnett was one of many, remarkable African American women who lived during the late 1800s and early 1900s. All strove to overcome the double obstacle of being women and African Americans at a time when both groups were struggling...

Her Pen Was a Mighty Sword.(Ida B. Wells wrote to tell the truth)
February 1, 2001... Could a pen be mightier than a sword? Ida B. Wells used her pen as a sword to create written and spoken words dealing with issues about which she was passionate. She wanted to tell the truth about lynching and to stir the emotions of her...

Dear Editor....(how to write letters to the editors of newspapers)
February 1, 2001... Ida B. Wells-Barnett used the power of the press to protest the evils of lynching and racial discrimination. Even without owning a newspaper, you, too, can use the power of the press. Speak out on an issue you care about with a letter to an...

LYNCH LAW IN THE UNITED STATES.(Ida B. Wells detested lynch law)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Ida B. Wells took seriously her role as a voice for justice for African Americans. She also detested the injustice and brutality of lynch law. When a Birmingham, Alabama, city councilor wrote a short letter to the editor of the Daily Post...

Reconstructing America.(Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction plan after the Civil War)
February 1, 2001... Even before the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln had begun to consider how the Confederate states should be received back into the Union. Conceived in 1863, his Reconstruction plan was remarkably lenient. Lincoln decided that if...

The Princess of the Press.(Ida B. Wells wrote for a religious newspaper)
February 1, 2001... Each Friday, after a long week teaching school, Ida B. Wells attended a literary and cultural club meeting at one of the Memphis, Tennessee, churches. Every meeting ended with readings from the group's newspaper, the Evening Star. When the...

Heading Up Free Speech and Headlight.
February 1, 2001... In 1889, Reverend Taylor Nightingale asked Ida B. Wells to become a staff writer for the Memphis, Tennessee, newspaper Free Speech and Headlight. Nightingale was pastor of that city's largest Baptist church, and he owned the paper with his...

TOUGH BEGINNINGS.(Ida B. Wells' early years)
February 1, 2001... The Early Years of Ida B. Wells By 1862, the Civil War (1861-1865) had stretched into its second year. The Southern states were determined to remain seceded from the Union. But, the Northern states were equally committed to keeping the...

IDA TAKES A STAND.(Ida B. Wells)
February 1, 2001... In 1881, Ida B. Wells had the opportunity to move from the country to the city. Her aunt Fannie, widowed by the yellow fever epidemic, invited Ida and two younger sisters, Annie and Lily, to live with her in Memphis, Tennessee....

Editor's Note.
February 1, 2001... She was an extraordinarily passionate civil rights activist. She spent nearly her entire adult life arguing for the protection of African Americans. She was a virtual one-woman antilynching crusade, writing articles for newspapers and journals...