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 Armstrong Dunbar  Moonstone Arts Center, 110A S. 13th Street, second floor, 215-735 9600 Two historians, a lawyer and a journalist discuss Ida B. Wells and…

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 Mia Bay – Act 48 Credits are available Contact Melvin Garrison, 215-4000-5694, garrison@philasd.org Co-sponsored by the School District of Philadelphia’s Teaching American History Grant Program…

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 who were also fighters against slavery, for the betterment of the working classes, and for the freedom of political prisoners. She is a world significant…

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– Co-sponsored by:   Cecil B. Moore Philadelphia Freedom Fighters and the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, Temple University Libraries, Hosted by Cecil B. Moore Branch…

“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 the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.” “Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so…

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,” 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…

  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…