Ep.55 - Ida B Ragin'

Hey, friends! This week, Lauren brings us the life and times of one Ida B. Wells!

Picture this, you're a young black girl born into slavery in the 1860's in Mississippi. Childhood is tragedy after tragedy, and you're separated from your family at a young age by being sold off. Then, after you're emapncipated, your begin a career in investigative journalism and begin to publish pamphlet after pamphlet calling out the horrifying and brutal treatment/murder of Black men/women in your community. All of a sudden, you and your paper are a target! What does a woman do in this case? Well... luckily Ida knew :) I promise this has a happy-ish ending!

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Image credits: Portrait of Ida B Wells in Black and White. Found through Wikimedia Commons. Link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ida_B._Wells.jpg