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In 16 days, Ida B Wells-Barnett would be 155 years old. Barnett was a fearless anti-lynching crusader, suffragist, Black women's rights advocate, journalist, and speaker. She stands as one of our nation's most uncompromising leaders and most ardent defenders of democracy.
Interestingly enough, she was a "new black" in her day, thinking race was not an issue and that the Black men and women who were randomly lynched caused their own fate. When her friend, Thomas Moss, a wealthy, African American grocery store owner was lynched and his murder influenced her to be an investigative journalist; writer.
She then realized you can be a successful; black man, women; person, you're still a nikka
She wrote in The Free Speech:
The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival. There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms. The white mob could help itself to ammunition without pay, but the order is rigidly enforced against the selling of guns to Negroes. There is therefore only one thing left to do; save our money and leave a town which will neither protect our lives and property, nor give us a fair trial in the courts, but takes us out and murders us in cold blood when accused by white persons.
Many people took the advice Wells penned in her paper and left town; other members of the Black community organized a boycott of white owned business to try to stem the terror of lynchings. Her newspaper office was destroyed as a result of the muckraking and investigative journalism she pursued after the killing of her three friends. She could not return to Memphis, so she moved to Chicago. She however continued her blistering journalistic attacks on Southern injustices, being especially active in investigating and exposing the fraudulent "reasons" given to lynch Black men, which by now had become a common occurrence.
She traveled across the country and in Europe to protest lynchings, called for the establishment of anti-lynching legislation, and exposed racial injustice. In 1910 she helped co-found the NAACP.
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