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For many, the street naming signifies a long overdue commemoration of Wells' contribution to the city. (Courtesy Chicago Daily Tribune). She has also certainly a much more radical idea about gender. Wells. According to NPR, her presence there was like a whirlwind — her activism continued, and it shaped the city in some major ways, starting with her overhaul of the education system. Paul Beaty/Associated Press Starting Oct. 1, the city of Chicago will allow more capacity at bars and restaurants. The board also awarded a special citation to Ida B. Why? In 1915, Oscar DePriest became the city's first black alderman, in part thanks to Wells' work organizing women voters. Ms. GIDDINGS: Absolutely. News, author interviews, critics' picks and more. Wells, a journalist most famous for the anti-lynching campaign she led from 1893 through 1927. And she was right. Forty years before Rosa Parks, she sued the railroads over segregated accommodations, and she was a wife and mother. Wells? It is time for a special Wisdom Watch. Thank you so much. Wells Drive were unveiled in February 2019. Author Paula Giddings talks about the book and Wells' historic fight against the inhumane practice of lynching in the U.S. Frederick Douglass worshiped there; Ida B. Ms. GIDDINGS: It was a public spectacle in a public square. Early in the movement for women's suffrage, Wells recognized that black women were not taking advantage of their limited voting rights and that the suffrage movement itself was not inclusive. She has a very famous line, a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every Afro-American home. Wells, "Ida: A Sword among Lions." Ms. GIDDINGS: What's interesting is, of course, she's one of the first investigative reporters. asked one anti-violence worker. hide caption. Wells' work with the Negro Fellowship League paved the way for other organizations addressing the needs of black people arriving in Chicago during the Great Migration, like the Chicago Urban League. The National Association of Black Journalists offers the Ida B. MARTIN: She found out, for example, let's talk about the case of Eliza Woods (ph). Follow her at @arionnenettles. Is that how you made the acquaintance of Ms. Ida B. I talk about this in the book - of Wells when she hears this particularly, it really begins to - and she also understands that lynching is not about men and rape. And so she says, you know, this is not worth it. The main reason is really ideological. She believed that black women could be a powerful voting bloc and could strengthen the power of the black electorate. A classroom in the old Mount Sinai Junior High School, a so-called "Rosenwald School" built for rural Black students during the Jim Crow era near Prattville, Ala. Wells co-founded the NAACP. And with all the tumult she's creating, and her anti-lynching editorial which also implies that rape is not really the motive, and that there's consensual relationships going on between white women and black men, she writes an editorial about this, a very short one. She just felt entitled to do as much as her experience said she was able to do and many disagreed. MARTIN: How was her work received by her peers? Ms. GIDDINGS: Thank you so much, Michel. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. It was open to both white and black students, but "the waiting list was such that there was little hope for many of the colored children who needed this training," Wells wrote in her autobiography. Wells. The work she did paved the way for generations of black politicians, activists, and community leaders. To learn more, visit www.sap.com/womenforward. She's best known for her anti-lynching work in the South, but Wells spent nearly four decades advancing black equality in Chicago. Patrick Smith/WBEZ Wells housing project is the square of plywood nailed over the 14th-floor window from which he was thrown to his death. Ida B. Mayor Lori Lightfoot released a plan Tuesday that takes a long-term approach to solving the city's entrenched gun violence. I'm Michel Martin, and this is Tell Me More from NPR News. She refused to have her family split up, the siblings split up. "In all of the legacy that she has laid around representation and voice in truth-telling," says State's Attorney Kim Foxx. Though it accepted both black and white children, it was the first kindergarten created specifically for Chicago's black community. But some said not so fast and stopped the process to allow the students to weigh in. An Atlanta school board panel recommended Tuesday that Henry W. Grady High School be renamed in honor of Ida B. She, you know, doesn't really care so much about that, but what she is afraid of as she reads the telegraphs coming to her is that there's going to be a race war if she returns because black men have also vowed to protect her if she does return. That must put a terrible burden on her. MARTIN: If you're just joining us, I'm speaking with scholar Paula Giddings about her new biography of Ida B. Wells. B Wells MARTIN: What do you mean by this? Why is that? In 1894, Ida B. So she was looking for an insurgency of the laboring classes, and believed in a grass roots kind of leadership where others... Ms. GIDDINGS: Not violent, except she did believe in self defense. Sophia King pose as the street signs for Ida B. In celebration of Black History Month, we honor trailblazer Ida B. Wells.She was a dogged investigative reporter and publisher who stood up against racism and violence toward black Americans. Well's great-granddaughter Michelle Duster, and Ald. Claudia Morell/WBEZ Her work made her the most famous black woman in … KELLY: Ida B. After her relocation to Chicago in 1894, she worked tirelessly to advance the cause of black equality and black power. MARTIN: This is interesting to me because she did a number of really remarkable things. Tony Raggs, far left, is the manager of the Safe Streets program for ALSO, an anti-violence organization. Not just, you know, the civil rights leadership of the time who were often men, but also by women, the suffragist movement, which was largely led by white women. Y Huh/Associated Press We look at the life of Ida B. Campaign signs near an early voting site in DuPage County. hide caption. She mobilized the members of a local women's civic club to create a new kindergarten in a black church. Wells was the most famous black woman in America during her lifetime--but how did that happen? A September 1916 issue of The Broad Ax includes an announcement of a Negro Fellowship meeting. Wells wrote about this pushback from black men in her autobiography. "There were white women who were very upset that black men had the right to vote but white women didn't, and there were some black men who thought that if black women could vote, that would dilute their power that would make them weaker," says Annie Logue, president of the League of Women Voters Chicago. Wells was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Ms. GIDDINGS: That's right. I'm Michel Martin, and this is Tell Me More from NPR News. Welcome, and thank you so much for coming. MARTIN: But tragedy struck early in her life, they died of the yellow fever epidemic that just kind of ravished their community. Wells a special citation for her reporting on lynching. It was a brutal schedule, but one she felt was worth it. That a mob has razed her office, that her co-partner has been run out of town, and that she herself is threatened lynching if she comes back, and she decides not to come back. That changed this year after a successful movement, led by her great-granddaughter Michelle Duster, to rename Congress Parkway in her honor. Arionne Nettles is a lecturer at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and a former WBEZ digital producer. Ms. GIDDINGS: Because her story is so central to - not only race in this country, but also to the culture, the entire culture to the country and its relationship to race. The oldest in the family, had to take care of five younger siblings. Copyright © 2008 NPR. Ms. GIDDINGS: This is part of it, but this is not the most important part of it. She is very self conscious. Wells worked for years as a public school teacher in her early adulthood, when she lived in Memphis, Tenn. MARTIN: In researching this biography, is there something that surprised you that just knocked your socks off? Ida Wells is the subject of a new biography, "Ida: A Sword Among Lions" by scholar Paula Giddings, who was kind enough to join us in our Washington Studio. Jay Reeves/Associated Press There were a couple of firsts in this year's announcement of the winners of the Pulitzer Prize. Wells settled into her new home: Chicago. The pioneering investigative reporter and anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells — the journalist and suffragist who spent the 1890s documenting lynching in the United States. The Pulitzer Prize board awarded suffragist Ida B. I mentioned that she was born into slavery. But as she worked to mobilize women, she met opposition from two groups: white women, who still did not have the right to vote in all elections, and black men, who legally had full suffrage but still faced unfair voting taxes, literacy tests, and other roadblocks. Paula, we just have a couple of minutes left. So she decided to do something about it.". Ms. GIDDINGS: And you know she said I'm sure I'm the only women giving political speeches with a nursing baby in tow, because she believed in nursing. CHICAGO - The only memorial for 5-year-old Eric Morse at the Ida B. That her printing presses - she came to run a newspaper, were burned, and she was warned not to come back to the city under threat of her life. Wells moved to Chicago at the age of 32, she was already a world-renowned anti-lynching crusader, civil rights activist and investigative journalist. Wells, a prominent journalist exposed racial violence in the South and led a trip to Washington, D.C. in 1913 to march in the national suffrage parade. District officials said … Two years later, the husband of the white woman who was killed, he actually confesses to the crime of killing his own wife for which Eliza Woods was lynched. Ms. GIDDINGS: She kind of walked into my life while I was doing the research of "When and Where I Enter." We look at the life of Ida B. Of course, I had heard about her before, but I hadn't really engaged in her and it wasn't long - I write this in the introduction in the book before she demanded a book of her own. In an interview with NPR's All Things Considered on Monday, Lamar says when he heard the news of the incident Sunday morning as he was preparing to lead worship in a digital service, he felt a confluence of emotions: ... Ida B. She will criticize people in public, including W.E.B. MARTIN: And also traveled on her speaking engagements with a nurse and often a baby in tow. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Illinois Lt. Gov. ", According to Wells' great-granddaughter Michelle Duster, Wells' work in education was inspired by her experiences as a mother of black children who did not have the same kind of educational opportunities as some other students. MARTIN: Many know your name from your seminal work, "Where and When I Enter." The Pulitzer Prize board awarded suffragist Ida B. The choice of Ida B. Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ida Wells-Barnett came, as you said, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois. No one escaped Ida's wrath completely, but this is not the main reason. She trained the women in canvassing and organized them to go door-to-door in predominantly black neighborhoods, educating other women on the political process and registering them to vote. Wells Drive is the first street in downtown Chicago to be named after a black woman. Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan (left) and Gov. Ms. GIDDINGS: Yes, well it's mixed. Today, though black Chicagoans still suffer from many inequities in housing, economic opportunity, and education, the movement that Wells launched continues. She also uses, Michel, the new methodologies of the social sciences, and also ways in which to present the truth to people. Ms. GIDDINGS: The depth of the violence and the irrationality of it and trying to understand what is so deep into the soul of this country that had to be reformed. Kind of a pill? The Pulitzer Prize board awarded suffragist Ida B. Ida B. Why did she demand a - and it is some book - it is 800 pages, so she was a demanding person. We travel to Memphis and learn about the moment that changed the rest of her life--and put her in mortal danger. Ms. GIDDINGS: This was though, quite tragic, for Ida because both of her parents died within 24 hours of one another in 1878. She was also a co-founder of the NAACP and one of the most powerful voices of the first anti-lynching campaign in America. We're all kind of an interesting moment like that now, and I hope that her hopes will be realized. Wells Commemorative Arts Committee, a group co-chaired by Wells’s great granddaughter Michelle Duster, started fundraising years ago, … Chicago police detectives investigate the scene where a number of people were shot in a city park in Chicago in 2013. The life and times of activist Ida B. We can reform the country. Her tenacity and loyalty to the truth remain a standard for all journalists. September 29, 2020 • Chicago officials will allow for more capacity at bars and restaurants and loosen other restrictions on Oct. 1, saying COVID-19 case rates and deaths have improved. September 29, 2020 • The 108-page report outlines a "public health" approach that includes more community-based investment and victims' services. Wells housing development, where the crime took place, and both sixteen years old. To trace Wells' legacy and understand its impact today, we spoke with some of those leaders — including Wells' great-granddaughter. Wells High School received 19.8% of the vote and the third choice of Piedmont High School received 18.8%. Black women today occupy the most powerful seats of local government — at the city, state, and county levels. So it's both of those things. She is so ahead of her time and she has a very different idea about race and a much more militant one and much more radical one than the NAACP or any of its leaders. Ms. PAULA GIDDINGS (Author, "Ida: A Sword Among Lions"): Hi Michel. So this can't be true, there's something else going on. Wells and other African-American women were told they would be segregated from the main group. Seth Perlman, Amr Alfiky/Associated Press There were a couple firsts in this year's … Her genius was to be able to see something and draw new conclusions about it, such as lynching and so, her life, as you know, goes from the Civil War all the way to 1931, through the most tumultuous and important periods of history and she shapes, and is shaped by them. First off, it was done remotely because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Ida B. The National Urban League opened its Chicago office in 1916, the year the Great Migration officially began. Exactly, exactly. "Others insisted that the women were trying to take the place of men and wear the trousers.". NPR coverage of Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. She's not disillusioned. MARTIN: You talk about - and as I said, there is just no way that we can possibly get into the kind of richness of this narrative here, but she did something that was very difficult to do, which is that she started writing about the lynchings that had become epidemic in this period and the kind of, the narrative that people were used to seeing, by the mainstream white papers - it has to be said that this burly brute attacked a woman and received his just deserve from a mob who were only doing the right thing. She launched her own newspaper and was a prominent speaker and anti-lynching crusader. Many of the values she brings around - understanding race and lynching, she brings to other progressive movements such as suffrage. "We tell people is … Wells called for blacks to leave a city that would not protect them, and about 20 percent of the population left which was an economic problem for Memphis. September 30, 2020 • County clerks say they're seeing renewed interest in early voting in person as some voters express fears about their mail-in ballots being counted. JB Pritzker. She is the author of "Ida: A Sword among Lions." Board member Leslie Gran told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the views of Grady do not “reflect the values that we want to carry forward.” He stands with some of his coworkers in Humboldt Park. She married, she had children, and I mention that because we so often see these activist women as flying solo... MARTIN: She did have that other side of her life, but it was not easy. But when they sought support finding housing and other resources, many white institutions turned them away. Wells — the journalist and suffragist who spent the 1890s documenting lynching in the United States. But Wells, a staunch opponent of segregation, saw only a shortage of opportunities and a need. Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ida Wells-Barnett came, as you said, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois. The psychological idea that I came across that did seem to fit her best, was that after the death of her parents, you know, Wells prays over her anger. It's the depth of the violence, and it's also the ability for someone to look at it squarely in the face and say no, but this can change. And I'm tempted to ask is it because she was hard to get along with? But she didn't and I'd like to ask you, how she developed this sense of righteous indignation. Charlene Scott, of member station WFCR, has the story behind an acclaimed theater director who decided to try his hand at writing. It was estimated that maybe a thousand people witnessed this. This really is the clincher for her. Leaves for Philadelphia for AME Conference, and discovers before she comes home that she cannot return to Memphis. But for decades, in spite of her profound legacy, a now-demolished Bronzeville housing project was the only major city landmark to bear her name. Ida understood that black people were being criminalized. We ask her great granddaughter Michelle Duster about Wells’ legacy. Ms. GIDDINGS: Eliza Woods was a black woman who was accused of poisoning her mistress - the women who she worked for, a white woman. In 1915, a man named Oscar DePriest became the city's first black alderman. Wells was born into slavery in Mississippi 156 years ago. September 29, 2020 • In her new book, author Isabel Wilkerson argues we have a caste system in the U.S. — and that acknowledging it is an important first step in understanding issues of race. hide caption. Katherine Nagasawa/WBEZ (WBEZ/Arionne Nettles). She has her last child when she's 42-years-old, and her husband 52. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by Verb8tm, Inc., an NPR contractor, and produced using a proprietary transcription process developed with NPR. MARTIN: I mentioned that Ida B. In the early 1900s, a growing number of black people moved to Chicago from the South. Nam. (Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library). She traveled, she taught, she spoke. She's angry a lot, but she's not bitter. MARTIN: Paula Giddings is the Elizabeth Woodson professor at Smith College. When Ida B. Born into slavery, Ida B. Wells. Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Ida B. The effort faced surprising resistance: a group of black people argued that creating a new kindergarten would make it more difficult for black children to be accepted at Armour. To do that, she worked as a probation officer during the day before heading to the Negro Fellowship League in the evening, often with her children in tow. But as important, the congregation is supported and nourished by everyday people like myself. MARTIN: And what was her radical idea about race? In 1990, Wells was also honored as a human rights activist on a postage stamp. "She [had] a vision that nobody else really wanted to support, but she believed in it enough to to do that," Duster says. MARTIN: She came from a remarkable family. I loved it. Wells and Booker T. Washington spoke there. JB Pritzker Says Michael Madigan Should Testify In Bribery Inquiry, Illinois Voters Concerned With Mailing Ballots Are Opting For Early Voting, Chicago Has A New Plan To Reduce Gun Violence, But COVID-19 Has Created Challenges, 'An X-Ray Of Our Country': How America's Caste System Has Shaped History, Chicago Eases Some COVID-19 Restrictions On Bars And Restaurants. And she understands that what people are saying about black people is untrue. Wells. Thanks to our presenting sponsor SAP. Wells became Ida B. Wells-Barnett. "And so, her attitude was, 'Well since it doesn't exist, we'll create it ourselves.'". She believed in being with her children. Ida B. The Ida B. Ida B. Wells is upset not only because of the lynching... MARTIN: And not just that - this was a public spectacle. How did she develop her sense of outrage about this and how did she go about reporting on these issues... MARTIN: When people were terrified to talk? Ida B. The documentary was reported by LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman — both residents of the Ida B. People eat outside of a restaurant in Skokie, Ill., Thursday, June 18, 2020. Wells Women’s Club and Alpha Suffrage Club, the first suffrage club for black women. That this was an excuse to cover the failures, other failures, in the society, and of also economic competition. Today, Ida B. Wells-Barnett is recognized for her outstanding courage in expanding opportunities for women of color in the suffrage movement, for her journalistic talent, and for efforts to raise awareness of the horrors of lynching. As relocation to the city ramped up during the Great Migration, even more organizations like Wells' were needed to address the demand. Ms. GIDDINGS: She understood why blacks were being lynched, at a time when not even all blacks understood it. "When her older children started getting of school age, then she recognized that black children did not have the same kind of educational opportunities as some other students," Duster says. One CPS high school student learned about Wells' work in the South for Black History Month but wanted to know more about her life in Chicago. Accuracy and availability may vary. Operas are often about great people doing great things, and a world premiere this week is no exception. Wells was a journalist and dedicated her life to fighting racial injustice in the South. Wells and Booker … Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931) was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement.She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). And she writes about lynching after her friends were lynched in 1892 - she begins anti-lynching editorials. Her parents managed to become quite accomplished. You know we can do something. "In all of the legacy that she has laid around representation and voice in … Wells became a ground-breaking investigative reporter in the 1890’s exposing the domestic terrorism practiced by white … October 1, 2020 • "How can we tell somebody to be healthy ... and advocate for a healthy lifestyle, and yet we're not living it?" Ms. GIDDINGS: Well, while most people were calling for, oh let's have quiet negotiations among the elite of both races to solve the race problem, she said you know the south owes rehabilitation to black labor, and all we have to do with civil disobedience is refuse. But Wells refused, and waited until the procession started before joining the block of women from Illinois. Remorse marks the return of Jones and Newman to NPR’s airwaves. Journalism was just one avenue Wells used to fight injustice. From New York then, she will write her famous editorial, "The Truth about Lynching," the first study of lynching, which will be published in the New York Age. October 1, 2020 • A House panel is investigating Madigan in the wake of ComEd's admission it gave jobs and contracts to associates of the speaker to curry favor with him. Wells' solution was to create a new kindergarten in a black church. hide caption. "Chicago, as we have said many a time before, points the way to the political salvation of the race," she once wrote in her club's newsletter, The Alpha Suffrage Record. Critics say Henry Grady’s name doesn’t reflect today’s values. Tazewell Thompson's first … She is a very difficult personality. She goes to the scenes of lynchings to find out about them. "The daily papers thought the movement was so auspicious that they gave a good deal of space to the movement and credit to the club. She said, but why are you lynching black women? Born into slavery, she became a civil rights pioneer, a crusading journalist who documented atrocities against blacks at great personal risk. How is she viewed in that circle? Booker - well, he was buried at your church. However, because Wells never received the financial support from Chicago's black middle- and upper-classes that she had hoped for, she eventually funded the league's operations herself. Wells Award yearly in remembrance of her leadership, while the city of Chicago has plans to build a statue in her honor. Like us on Facebook Atlanta composer and violist Amy Leventhal has written a new opera based on the life of Ida B. Wells a special citation for her reporting on lynching. After an angry mob burned the newspaper's office down, she kept going. "The men jeered at [the women] and told them they ought to be at home taking care of the babies," she writes. So, in 1910, she created the Negro Fellowship League. She started a number of clubs and organizations including the Ida B. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record. The league started as a rooming house for men but became so much more: It placed black people in jobs, and hosted political meetings and social gatherings. She will embarrass people in public if she feels they are compromising. Wells is the subject of a new book, Ida: A Sword Among Lions. 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