Most of my Sheroes come from #mississippi This is just one. #idabwells is #americanhistory so many do not know. I had never heard of her until this image was on a US postal stamp in 1990 when I was at Howard. When I read her biography by (Howard alum) #paulagiddings published in 2008, I was forever changed. The book not only told Ida's story but America's as well. Ironically enough the Tea Party was just starting up when I read the book in 2010.. Now that the #antilynchingbill is FINALLY law the world needs to know her name and her story.. Ida was first arrested for not sitting in the colored section on a train. Sound familiar? Ida was a journalist who used her words to dispel the myth that lynchings were not taking place.. Ida traveled overseas to England and Scotland with her children (husband stayed in the states) showing photos of the atrocities going on... (No women traveled alone during this time period! Mr. Barnett was a feminist before his time!) There was a massive campaign filled with propaganda denying the fact that lynching was happening all over this country... She faced numerous death threats but somehow lived until 1931. (@dorothyknows was born the year after.) And she and her husband helped migrants get housing work in Chicago until their last days.. This is the type of #americanhistory AKA #criticalracetheory missing from our classrooms... #idabwells is am #americanshero Learn Her Name. https://www.instagram.com/p/CbuwmP9OQHr/?utm_medium=tumblr
