Ida B. Wells

[Unkotare]

Ida B. Wells was really the first Rosa Parks, but she doesn't seem to get as much 'air time' as she should.

 

[JakeStarkey]

She pushed the anti-lynching federal laws against which the southern congresscritters fought against so strenuously.

 

[Mr. H.]

Parks' experience provided a much better photo op for the Bam.

 

[Cassandro]

Rosa Parks' protest was carefully orchestrated by the local NAACP, for whom she worked. Her cause was just, but she was no Horatius at the Bridge.

 

[Indeependent]

Ida B Oks

 

[TheOldSchool]

Rosa Parks' protest was carefully orchestrated by the local NAACP, for whom she worked. Her cause was just, but she was no Horatius at the Bridge.

Says a guy who's never feared incarceration for doing something they believe in

 

[Mr. H.]

Obama got on that bus. Photo op.

 

[Unkotare]

Rosa Parks' protest was carefully orchestrated by the local NAACP, for whom she worked.

Wells' lawsuit against the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad wasn't, and she helped found the NAACP.



Ida B. Wells-Barnett(1862-1931) and Her Passion for Justice, Black Women, African American Women, Sufferage, Women's Movement, Civil Rights Leaders