Ida B' Wells

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Ida B. Wells

• http//www.inform.umd.edu/Pictures/WomensStudies/P
  ictureGallery/wells.html

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Quick Notes on Ida

• Parents 3 of her siblings died from Yellow
  Fever
• Became a teacher started making money
• Wrote an article on lynching, and as a result
  there were no lynchings for 20 years
• Friends with Susan B. Anthony
• Part of the 1st black newspaper in Chicago, The
  Conservator
• One of the founders of the NAACP

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How did Ida help the NAACP?

• National Association for the Advancement of
  Colored People
• Came out with an In your face manor
• Exposed lack of protection for black women
• Ida held boycotts through the NAACP
• A famous boycott was the Montgomery bus boycotts

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What was the name of the 1st black newspaper?

• Montgomery Newspaper
• Yellow Fever Newspaper
• The Conservator
• The Chicago Boycott

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Biography

• Nikki Voeller
• Senior at Western Michigan University
• Elementary Education Major
• Minor in English
• From East Lansing, MI