...influence and impact on the government, their decisions matter. The fewer people involved in pushing that influence, the less that the government will consider or represent the wishes of the people. I am writing to you to ask that we make a national holiday for Ida B. Wells. She deserves to have a day that is dedicated to her, a day that focuses on her contribution to Civil Rights. Wells was an active black female journalist that wrote about many subjects including those of segregation, women’s rights, and anti-lynching. She was very outspoken and wanted the world to hear what she had to say. She wanted to bring attention to the continued failure of civil rights. Her contribution, along with many others, helped to end segregation and restricted voting. When Wells took a train ride in May of 1884, from Memphis to Nashville, her motivations were made very clear. She had bought a first-class ticket for the ride and was furious when crew members ordered her to move to the car for African Americans. She refused and was forcibly removed from the train. Wells sued the railroad and won a $500 settlement in a circuit court case. The decision was later overturned by the Tennessee Supreme Court and was then ordered to pay court costs. Wells felt that she needed to speak out and take leadership in guiding people to fight for what was right. Thus, beginning her journalism career. In 1892 her friends set up a grocery store in Memphis. The business drew customers away from a white-owned store in...
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...would become well known for their advocacy and effort in trying to make the nation better as a whole. One such figure is Ida B. Wells, an African American woman who was born in 1862 as a slave during the Civil War. Ida B. Wells was a muckraker, or reform-focused investigative journalist, who wrote continuously about the horrors of racism in the Jim...
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...Horrors Paper The power for a single person to vastly affect the world around them is a rare and special talent. Ida B. Wells took it upon herself to positively influence the world she lived in. With every possible obstacle in her way she found a way to work through them and accomplish extraordinary achievements. As an African American equal rights activist in 1892, she spoke through her pen to send a strong message of egalitarianism to the world. During the post reconstructions era racial tensions reached their peak as lynching became more prominent. Lynching is a form of brutal capital punishment, usually as result of mob violence without the benefit of due process resulting in a hanging. Ida was a monumentally dominant figure in the anti-lynching campaign, as well as committees for anti-lynching that were formed to raise awareness of lynching not only as a problem in the United States but as a national issue. After the emancipation of the slaves, the whites felt as if they lost control over what was theirs and as a result used extreme force to express their dissatisfaction. In turn, the African Americans’ situation did not improve after the emancipation due to the fact that the whites no longer had a stake in their survival and still had a fierce hatred towards their race. Massive amounts of African Americans were lynched for little to no reason at all. Ida made a valiant effort to better the world through facts, reason, and logic; the power of one unlikely person was able...
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...Her case had a tremendous impact on the Women’s movement as the hopes of women suffragists of reaching the Supreme Court survived Anthony’s conviction; the Court agreed to hear two cases from Washington, DC and Virginia Minor’s case. Minor was also a member of the National Woman Suffrage Association who also demanded her right to vote under the Fourteenth Amendment. United States v. Susan B. Anthony helped to pass a legislation in which a citizen could appeal a federal criminal conviction to the Supreme Court. In 1882, U.S. Circuit Judge George McCreary, Kansas, ruled that there was a clear violation of the constitutional guarantee to trial in the case of the United States v. Susan B. Anthony. Ida B. Wells was born in 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi, and was the daughter of slaves. She was a journalist and wrote about race and politics using the nickname “lola.” Her father helped start a newly freed slave school, the Shaw University, where Wells did her early schooling. She stopped going to school after her parents and one of her siblings contracted yellow fever and died. In 1878, at age 16 she was responsible for the upbringing of her siblings. Pretending she was 18, she got a job as a teacher in a nearby country school, and continued her education at Fisk University in Nashville....
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... there would be one African American woman who would voice her objections through writings and protests about the heinous actions. Despite the numerous efforts that sought to intimidate her, Ida B. Wells was an outspoken African American woman, who had a reputation for fearlessness and determination. She would become one of the most important African American women reformers of her day. Ida B. Wells was a woman dedicated to a cause, a cause to prevent hundreds of thousands of African Americans from being lynched. Ida B. Wells drew on many experiences throughout her life to aid in her crusade. It was her...
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...Ida B Wells-Barnett was an African American born a slave but eventually involved in winning justice for the African American Community. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves six months after Ida was born. Ida was a journalist, early civil rights leader, suffragist, and sociologist. She was a committed fighter against lynching. Lynching was blacks who competed with whites as a way to punish innocents in wrong unlawful ways. Throughout her life she fought for what she believed in and kept fighting until her death. Even though Ida Wells is not the most famous person today who fought for African American justice, she is a very important figure in the Early Civil Rights movement of the (1862-1931) that helped the African American population. Wells was a true hero a rebel to be exact who tried to bring justice to the African American community. Many people claim that rebel stands for a harmful rioting person, not abiding by regulated rules. Rebel really stands for a leader, fighter and believer. Wells was a rebel who impacted the world in a several positive ways. Was Wells actions and rebellious ways justified? Some say no others say yes. Now it's your turn to decide. Even though she lost both parents to malaria and left to raise her five siblings Wells managed to continue her teaching experience and became the editor of the Evening Star in Memphis. This is when Wells became...
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...The American figure I chose is Ida B. Wells Barnett, an African American writer and reformer. Barnett was an activist for anti-lynching and civil rights movement during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Ida B. Wells-Barnett was born on July 16, 1862, in Holly Springs, Mississippi. She was the daughter of James Wells who was a carpenter and Elizabeth Warrenton who was a cook. Wells was the eldest out of eight children. During Wells childhood the nation went under renovation, with ratified amendments, the south was readmitted to the Union, and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union was founded. Wells parents and younger brother was killed by the yellow fever epidemic. This made her determined to keep her family together, so she became...
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...Ida B. Wells was a journalist and activist that led an anti-lynching battle in the 1890s. She was born a slave in 1862 to James and Lizzie Wells in Holly Springs, Mississippi. At six months old she was decreed free by the Union. Ida’s parents were involved in the Republican Party during Reconstruction. At the age of 16 her parents and one of her younger siblings died in the Yellow Fever outbreak. By the year 1882 she and her siblings that survived moved to Memphis, Tennessee with an aunt. Her brothers found work as carpenters while she continued to further her education at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. During the month of May in the year 1884, Wells reached her turning point. Wells bought a first class train ticket and was told to move to the car for African Americans, Wells refused on principle. She bit one of...
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...How far were the actions of the African Americans the main reason for the advancement of the Civil Rights in the period 1865-1980? “Power concedes nothing without demand, it never has and it never will”[1]. Said by Fredrick Douglass in 1857, an escaped slave who had bearded the brunt of the slave years. He had come to the realisation that African Americans had a fountain of “power”; however that power that they possessed would never establish anything without a “demand”. Fredrick Douglass awoke the conscious of African Americans to make them realise that wanting to be free and wanting to achieve full civil rights was not enough, neither was enduring a life under white supremacy waiting for life after death to see a new dawn .Believing and hoping was not enough. “Power concedes nothing without demand” the solution is to be willing to work hard to establish it yourself by demanding what belongs to them. However using power in order to concede civil rights was a struggle which was acknowledged by Fredrick Douglass “Without struggle there is no success”. To achieve advancement in African American Civil Rights, African Americans had to undergo a process of struggle. A rainbow is not made without rain; you can not want rain without thunder and lightening being accompanied by it. To achieve full civil rights African Americans had to pay the price along the way which was persecution, de-humanisation and scrutiny. Martin Luther King being inspired by Fredrick Douglass said “Freedom...
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...Born a slave in 1862, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was the oldest daughter of James and Lizzie Wells. The Wells family, as well as the rest of the nation's slaves, were freed about six months after Ida's birth, thanks to the Emancipation Proclamation. However, living in Mississippi as African Americans, they faced racial prejudices and were restricted by discriminatory rules and practices. Wells-Barnett's father served on the first board of trustees for Rust College and made education a priority for his seven children. It was there that Wells-Barnett received her early schooling, but she had to drop out at the age of 16, when tragedy struck her family. Both of her parents and one of her siblings died in a yellow fever outbreak, leaving Wells-Barnett to care for her other siblings. Ever resourceful, she convinced a nearby country school administrator that she was 18, and landed a job as a teacher. On one fateful train ride from Memphis to Nashville, in May 1884, Wells-Barnett reached a personal turning point. Having bought a first-class train ticket to Nashville, she was outraged when the train crew ordered her to move to the car for African Americans, and refused on principle. She was then forcibly removed from the train. Wells-Barnett sued the railroad, winning a $500 settlement in a circuit court case. But that decision was later overturned by the Tennessee Supreme Court. This injustice led Wells-Barnett to pick up a pen to write about issues of race and politics in the South...
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...Dubois, and the passive Booker T. Washington. The acts of women in the movement were downplayed and were not credited as the many key acts of resistance that created the pathways throughout the movement. Rosa Parks, for example, is only known for refusing to give up her seat for a white man, when after her act of resistance, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Women’s Political Council (WPC) decided that this was the moment to organize the Montgomery bus boycotts. Contributions from other important female figures like Ida B. Wells, Mamie Till, Jo Ann Robinson, and Ella Baker are discredited and uncelebrated compared to the contributions of African American...
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...African American Criminological Thought Book Report Sharon Francis University of Houston- Downtown This report is based upon the book African American Criminological Thought, written by Helen Taylor Greene, Shauan L Gabbion with forewords by Julius Debro. This book is published by the State University of New York and is copyrighted 2000 by Helen Taylor Greene, Shauan L Gabbion with forewords by Julius Debro. These authors are well educated and well known by many different individuals from other books that they have published. This report will show how several different scholars made and influenced the world despite of many events, these criminologist does fit into the history of events that have happened or is still happing in...
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...My name is Ida B. Wells Barnett was in born in Holly Springs, Mississippi on July 16, 1862. Six months after my birth the Emancipation Proclamation was signed to freed the slaves. My parents James and Elizabeth Wells were born slaves and I was the oldest of seven siblings. My father was one of the first broad members of Rust College, so education was very important to my parents. In 1878 the tragic outbreak of the yellow fever took my parents and one of my youngest sibling lives. At the age of sixteen I drop out of school and raised five siblings with the help of friends and relatives (Baker, 1996). Having to be a caretaker and provider, I convinced the school administrator that I eighteen year old and landed a teaching job. In 1883 my siblings and I moved to Memphis with my aunt who gives me the opportunity to seek employment and help me with rise my youngest siblings (Baker, 1996). In Memphis I took training courses and was qualify to teach first grade students in Woodstock, Tennessee. On May 4, 1884 I purchased a first class ticket to Nashville, Tennessee on the train, I was outrage when a train conductor order me to give up my seat for a white man I refused and I got off at the next stop after causing so much commotion (Baker, 1996). As soon as I reached Memphis I hired a lawyer and sued the railroad company and winning a settlement of five hundred dollars, but the Tennessee Supreme Court later overturned the decision. After justice was not service to and I was treated unfair...
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...STARHUB SUBMISSION ON THE IDA SECOND CONSULTATIVE DOCUMENT FOR THE Proposed Code of Practice for Competition in the Provision of Telecommunication Services Description of the commenting party and its interest in the proceeding 1 Description StarHub Pte Ltd and StarHub Mobile Pte Ltd were awarded a Public Basic Telecommunication Services (PBTS) licence and a Public Cellular Mobile Telephone Services (PCMTS) Licence in Singapore on 5 May 1998. StarHub launched its commercial PBTS and PCMTS services on 1 April 2000. StarHub acquired CyberWay (now StarHub Internet) for the provision of Public Internet Access Services in Singapore on 21 January 1999. This response to IDA’s Second Consultation Paper on the Proposed Code of Practice for Competition in the Provision of Telecommunication Services ("Code") represents the views of the StarHub group of companies, namely, StarHub Pte Ltd, StarHub Mobile Pte Ltd and StarHub Internet Pte Ltd. 2 Interest in the Proceedings StarHub has been dealing with the incumbent, SingTel, for about two years and is in a unique position to comment on the problems it faced and still faces as a new entrant to the local telecommunications market. StarHub supports appropriate regulatory intervention to achieve efficient, competitive provision of services in the telecommunication market in Singapore, as policy intends. summary of the commenting party's position StarHub welcomes the opportunity...
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...James Baldwin speaks about the racial profiling in with the law enforcement in The Fire Next Time. “…two policemen amused themselves with me by frisking me, making comic (and terrifying) speculations concerning my ancestry and probable sexual powers, and for good measure, leaving me flat on my back in one of Harlem’s empty lots.” A minority is seemed to be inferior, whites wanted to keep blacks in awe; to keep them under and in control and would go to great lengths to keep it that way. When lynching was at a high point in the late 1800’s blacks would be the main target, often the case was rape and that was only because white supremacist needed a valid reason as to why they should lynch black and even though majority of time rape was not the reason, they did it anyways. Ida B. Wells recalls in her magazine Our Day about how three black men were lynched because of their success and those who were white who were jealous of their success and placed a halt on...
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