Editorials condemning “lynch law” caused white mobs to wreck her newspaper press.
What happened when Wells wrote editorials for the Memphis Free Speech against lynching?
100
Women in the United States, including African American women, have the right to vote.
What is the Wells legacy for the suffrage movement.
200
Teaching in a one-room schoolhouse in Mississippi
What was Ida Wells first job?
200
The book was "A Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings in the United States" in 1895.
What was the first book Ida Bell Wells published?
200
This book documented the horrors of lynching in the United States and is still an important record of that time.
What is "A Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States."
300
She was critical of having segregated schools in 1891 leading to this result.
Why was Ida Wells dismissed from teaching school.
300
She eventually lost her case in the Tennessee Supreme Court, but had initially won in a lower court.
What is suing the railroad for forcing blacks to be on segregated/Jim Crow train cars.
300
Women have become more involved in political issues ranging from conservative to liberal.
What is the legacy of Wells-Barnett as a political activist?
400
1931, Chicago Illinois.
When and where did Ida B. Wells-Barnett die?
400
Alpha Suffrage Club
What was the name of the Women's Suffrage Club Wells founded in Chicago?
400
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus in the civil rights movement, similar to this women's refusal to give up her seat in a First Class train Car