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Ida B. Wells-Barnett
- Artist
- Sallie E. Garrity, c. 1862 - 1907
- Sitter
- Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, 16 Jul 1862 - 25 Mar 1931
- Date
- c. 1893
- Type
- Photograph
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Dimensions
- Image/Sheet: 13.9 x 9.8 cm (5 1/2 x 3 7/8")
- Mount: 16.3 x 10.7 cm (6 7/16 x 4 3/16")
- Mat: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14")
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- Object number
- NPG.2009.36
- Exhibition Label
- Born Holly Springs, Mississippi
- The daughter of former slaves, Ida B. Wells sued the Chesapeake, Ohio, and Southwestern Railway in 1883 after being dragged from her seat for refusing to move to a segregated railcar. Her anger over this incident spurred her to begin contributing articles to black-owned newspapers; she became part owner and editor of the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight in 1889. After three black businessmen were lynched in Memphis in 1892, Wells launched what became a four-decade-long anti-lynching crusade. She vigorously investigated other lynchings and published her groundbreaking treatise on the topic, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
- Data Source
- National Portrait Gallery
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- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Place
- United States\Illinois\Cook\Chicago
- Usage
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