Today
I am gonna write about Ida Bell Wells-Barnett. What I will write is
just a taste of her life. This lady did more before she died than I
will accomplish if you gave me three more runs at the nonsense I have
called my life. Source: me. She was born in Holly Springs,
Mississippi on July 16th, 1862. Yeesh. I hear 18-anything and
shudder. Her father was born a slave to his father who hired him out
as a slave throughout town. Her mother was sold away from her own family and was never
able to locate them. And don't forget, since her father was a slave
Ida was also a slave. She was later “freed” after the signing of
the Emancipation Proclamation. By the time she was 16 she had lost
her parents and her brother because of the yellow fever. God, every
time I do one of these posts I feel both miserable and happy that
people existed and exist these days that did so much good shit even
though their lives whomped. She took care of her other brothers and
sisters while working as a teacher living with her grandmother. Ida
was also one of the founding members of the NAACP which some say is
debatable.
In 1884 she filed a lawsuit against a
train car company for unfair treatment. She won the case but
federally they were like “Nah.” Ida wrote about lynchings in
America which did not make people happy. She pointed out how it was
aimed towards Blacks when it was feared that they were doing well. So
of course they ended up burning her newspaper office down. She
brought this up after one of her friends was lynched by a mob. She
traveled the world telling about how America was lynching the fuck
out of Black people. She also spoke about White women that sat by
ignoring the lynchings. They didn't like that. She was fighting for
Black rights and the rights of women but each of those groups had
issues with her. She created the NACWC (National Association of
Colored Women's Club) that dealt with civil rights issues and issues
for women. I hope theme music played whenever this lady entered the
room. I would imagine Rock Steady by Aretha Franklin.
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