Episode 282 - Ida B. Wells - Her Power, Pen and Protests
Our latest episode goes hog wild as we talk about the heroic Ida B. Wells. From taking care of her brothers and sisters at the age of 16 after her parents and brother died of yellow fever to teaching in black schools to writing for local papers and taking on lynchings in the South. And this wasn't even forty years after the Brooks Sumner Affair where South Virginia's Senator Preston Brooks attacked Massachussets Senator Charles Sumner hitting him over the head many times after he gave a powerful Anti-Slavery speech. And this was a black woman born into slavery who told the truth about…
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