Moonstone Arts Center Presents
Ida B. Wells, Lynching & Trayvon Martin
Ida B. Wells
![]() “One had better die fighting injustice than like a rat in a trap.” – Ida B. Wells |
Lynching
|
Trayvon Martin![]() |
January 22 to February 3, 2013
City Wide Program
Commemorating Ida B. Wells 150th Birthday
Brought to you by a partnership of organizations, organized by Moonstone
Who was Ida B. Wells?Of all the Great civil rights leaders, Ida B. Wells is one of the least known – yet one of the most important. An activist, educator, writer, journalist, suffragette, and pioneering voice against the horror of lynching, Ida B. Wells used fierce determination and the power of the pen to educate the world about the unequal treatment of blacks in the United States. She helped found the NAACP, fought for women’s voting rights and waged a campaign against lynching that exposed the use of mob violence to terrorize African-Americans. Ida B. Wells was born into slavery on July 16, 1862, six months before the Proclamation Emancipation in Holly Springs, Mississippi. |
Quotes
“Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense. ”
“I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way… so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.”
“If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service. ”
Presenters
Click HERE for a full list of presenters.
Resources
Articles
Lynch Law by Ida B. Wells click HERE for full text
Ida B. Wells: Let the Truth be Told, Walter Dean Meyers, ages 8/9, Harper, $16.99
Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement, Dennis Fradin, ages 12/14, Clarion, 19.00
Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching by Crystal N. Feimster, Harvard, $19.95
On Lynching, Ida B. Wells, introduction Patricia Hill Collins, Prometheus Books, 19.98
To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells by Mia Bay, Hill & Wang, $18.00
Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching, Paula Giddings, Harper, $19.99
Schedule
Full schedule can be found HERE.