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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Centennial Twitter Collection Subject The topic of the resource 2020 Centennial of Women's Suffrage Amendment Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rachel B. Tiven Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Twitter.com Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource August 2019 to August 2020 Language A language of the resource English Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource Ida B at work. Another glimpse of the master persuader, via the beautiful 2d edition of her autobiography. Great foreword by @<a href="https://twitter.com/eveewing" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">eveewing</a> & afterword by @<a href="https://twitter.com/MichelleDuster" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">MichelleDuster</a> about preserving the legacy. 🧵 In 1900 the Chicago Tribune runs stories lauding the benefits of segregated schools. They interview racist local parents and superintendents of segregated systems in St. Louis, Baltimore & Washington DC. Ida’s husband observes that @<a href="https://twitter.com/chicagotribune" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">chicagotribune</a> is on a segregationist crusade. Ida writes the editor, pointing out that “everybody had been quoted on the subject of separate schools except those most vitally concerned--the Negroes.” She asks if he’ll meet with a delegation to discuss. The editor doesn’t reply, so Ida shows up at his office. He ignores her, assuming any Black woman at his doorstep is soliciting funds for her church. Ida laughs it off and demands his attention. He is utterly unsympathetic to the school segregation question, and they move quickly to the heart of the matter: political power. “He said that he did not believe that it was right that ignorant Negroes should have the right to vote and to rule white people [when] they were in the majority.” Ida replies that she doesn’t think “white men in the First Ward flophouses” are any more worthy of the franchise. “Even so, I was not disposed to condemn all white people because of that situation nor deprive the better class of them of their rights in the premises.” The editor says he doesn’t have time to waste on a meeting, but he’ll publish her letter, space permitting. “I told him that the delegation of Negroes whom I had hoped to bring to him would not waste his time, because they were too busy at their different occupations and could ill afford to waste their time or his own in fruitless discussion.” 🔥💜 The editor, Robert W. Patterson, belonged to one of the most powerful families in Chicago. His father-in-law was Joseph Medill, owner of the Tribune & Mayor of Chicago in the 1870s. Ida knows a boycott won’t work - the community is too small. So she changes strategy. Jul Ida asks Jane Addams to invite the leading citizens of Chicago to Hull House @<a href="https://twitter.com/JAHHM" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">JAHHM</a> for a meeting that Sunday. Addams gathers editors of the competing papers, ministers and rabbis, white club women, and members of the Board of Ed to hear Ida make the case. “I told how separate schools always meant inferior schools for Negro children while at the same time making a double tax burden. I told of my interview with the editor of the Tribune and how I had been made to realize that there was absolute indifference to whatever the Negro thought or felt about the matter...It was their civic and financial influence which the Tribune respected...Would they use that power to help us, the weaker brothers, secure here in Chicago an equal chance with the children of the white races?” It works. As a result of Ida’s effort, Jane Addams leads a group of seven eminent Chicagoans to meet with the Tribune. The articles stop. The @chicagotribune doesn’t shill for segregated schools again during Ida’s lifetime. #BlackSuffragists #CenturyofStruggle #Vanguard Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Daily Suffragist Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://twitter.com/DailySuffragist/status/1280605453223936002" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Original thread.</a> Title A name given to the resource Ida B Takes on the Chicago Tribune Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 07/07/2020 1900 Black Suffragists Chicago Ida B Wells Illinois Racism https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/53651/archive/files/c24e3d4d5fc18bef259170e0b0c0bcc4.jpeg?Expires=1787788800&Signature=tTp%7ECKR8aIWsMdOl1eLOKh6BfdAoegNvZOhAIMkBAi6sV5tyc5eapLQAV4JV3I-qiVmzeKgXsngVrEDD6y1nvpD0f8v%7EzEPWghwtUuTo698c5B1DJr1cUW%7EHkJgi5iFXrYxXkvSrEzIeJoYp7boHyh7-KcG8MfdfpSh%7ENz7SMTgc43H-XpB92-8Epmf5zDfhW7p7amCQjXvsChpIrCY6lpIwp8JFL95cntOGqzlWOiYpk905pYeQ29P2oanrCKGq0uylW5zC5dQeTLAmc0s6zL2Kx1m%7EsEaOi6ZrH77btk6lgV2U3OJoRokfk6zZuqFyyiZ9RHIsAXBU0deDO3jCHA__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM cc32424a323574a0fbe9a0baa9ab75bc https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/53651/archive/files/0850ef1700299f7ccb071c32842634ac.png?Expires=1787788800&Signature=qkkEG8ZmJMQdX%7EIFuCoH%7Ee1ZSnCCvA0JCCyT6%7EHNEq7igBzoazj2PdpRW4YJaSzZFbDkRzhXrYWddZ4tv2sPM2Rg2e8Dzwlp9oy65RyrK2L7ZV7VGPqdIModCNXQNscUgRRMQh%7EcK7cHFwID5VwKs34WiR0QCaNqx-My-%7EfQ8Y-RAscHvE%7EonuFV9J133YBNvMefHmKs1OvW2myDJdt1B4EeF5UhfwhYz%7EB4iNVQE08VlvCNRavXvzipG3ZTN02olQML8Deoa1V1M0mFSvR0dSXB2Dw9BHKkizfRTLTu4mnVzXND%7EA0shUkaEz6O1cPeNLpwF0MXlJrYYRlAEYoNdg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 6209d7de8ff80b33374eb3fd51ae0ee6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Centennial Twitter Collection Subject The topic of the resource 2020 Centennial of Women's Suffrage Amendment Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rachel B. Tiven Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Twitter.com Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource August 2019 to August 2020 Language A language of the resource English Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource Fannie Barrier Williams was so significant a thinker that though almost no Black women were invited to lecture at the Chicago World’s Fair, she spoke twice. She addressed the World Congress of Representative Women in May, and the World Parliament of Religions in September. 🧵 Her first address, “The Intellectual Progress of Colored Women,” was a particular standout. @<a href="https://twitter.com/ProfessorCrunk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ProfessorCrunk</a> Brittney Cooper describes it as “the most intellectually sophisticated and compelling narrative about race women’s progress and racial aspirations.” Fannie Barrier Williams was born and raised in Brockport, NY, a town on the Erie Canal. By her description her childhood was “sweet and delightful” - she did not experience racism until she graduated from what’s now SUNY @<a href="https://twitter.com/Brockport" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Brockport</a> and moved away. She married atty S. Laing Willliams and moved to Chicago. There she was well-positioned to pressure white society women to include African-Americans in the 1893 World’s Fair, a fight they all but lost. Fannie took the lone clerical job they offered, though it was beneath her. She became nationally known after her speeches at the World’s Fair, and was proposed for membership in the all-white Chicago Woman’s Club. After a year of dispute, she was admitted. Soon after, she was instrumental in creating the National Association of Colored Women. In 1907, NAWSA’s annual suffrage convention came to Chicago. Susan B Anthony had just died, and Fannie was asked to represent “the colored people” at the memorial. She generously hearkened back to Susan B’s abolitionist days. Williams emphasized Susan B's “unremitting struggle for liberty, more liberty, and complete liberty for negro men and women in chains,” plus, in a gentle tweak: “and for white women in their helpless subjection to man’s laws.” Fannie Barrier Williams was the first woman AND the first African-American to join the board of the Chicago Public Library @<a href="https://twitter.com/chipublib" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">chipublib</a> -- in 1924. 😣 She relentlessly critiqued the double burden of racism and sexism that Black women faced. For more on her intellectual work, including her critique of W.E.B.DuBois’ gender politics, read @ProfessorCrunk's book <a href="https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/68emc6tz9780252040993.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Beyond Respectability</a>. After her husband died and her term on the Library Board ended, she returned to Brockport, where she died in 1944. #BlackSuffragists Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Daily Suffragist Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://twitter.com/DailySuffragist/status/1264023748279242754" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Original thread.</a> Title A name given to the resource Fannie Barrier Williams Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 22/05/2020 1893 1907 Chicago Chicago World's Fair NACW