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Tag: Hidden History

  • Ida B. Wells Resources

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    Film Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice documents the dramatic life and turbulent times of the pioneering African American journalist, activist, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader of the post-Reconstruction period. A fuller description of the film is attached. Books Ida B. Wells: Let the Truth be Told, Walter Dean Meyers, ages 8/9, Harper, $16.99 An…

  • Lynch Law by Ida B. Wells

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    “Lynch Law,” says the Virginia Lancet, “as known by that appellation, had its origin in 1780 in a combination of citizens of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, entered into for the purpose of suppressing a trained band of horsethieves and counterfeiters whose well concocted schemes had bidden defiance to the ordinary laws of the land, and whose…

  • Ida B. Wells Biography

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      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…

  • Afghanistan and Gender Equality: A Report from the Front Line

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    Afghanistan and Gender Equality: A Report from the Front Line with Budd MacKenzie Budd MacKenzie is founder of Trust in Education (TIE), a grass roots, non-profit, secular, people to people organization, returned recently from his fifteenth trip to Afghanistan, taken over the past 8 years. TIE has helped educate thousands of Afghan children, over 50%…