Tag: history

Saturday January 26, 2013 – 7pm To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells A Discussion with Mia Bay, Michael Coard and Linn Washington  Moderated by Erica […]

Saturday January 26, 2013 – 10am To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells African American Museum in Philadelphia, 701 Arch Street, 215-574-0380 A Teacher Workshop with […]

Pam Africa is the coordinator for the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal and stands as a contemporary figure in the tradition of the early women’s rights advocates […]

Wednesday January 23, 4pm Cecil B. Moore Branch Library, 2320 Cecil B. Moore Avenue, 215-685-2766 Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice and the Cecil B. Moore Philadelphia Freedom Fighters– […]

“Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of […]

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. […]

“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 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, […]