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Passing the torch

The founding of the National Association of Colored Women in 1896 gathered two generations of prominent African-American women in the nation's…

Presidential Suffrage

Ida B. Wells could vote for President years before Alice Paul or Carrie Chapman Catt. How? Read on Changing state constitutions is hard. Who votes…

Suffrage Book Club

If your New Year's resolution is to read more books, #CiteBlackWomen more, and/or meet new people... Join me in reading Paula Giddings' biography of…

The lynchings of Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell, and William Stewart

By 1892, Ida B Wells’ Memphis paper was thriving. She traveled the Mississippi Delta selling subscriptions, tripling circulation. Free Speech was…

There's a lot of stuff on the world wide web

Way down the rabbit hole tonight. Memphis cartes de visites circa 1880s, many from a Gebhardt Studios on Beale Street that had both black & white…

White women lie

Ida B Wells’ crusade against lynching succeeded for many reasons: her investigative rigor, her talent as a writer and speaker, her relentlessness. But…