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The significance of Ida B. Wells work for American freedoms Rudy Williams Replay Video UP NEXT Ida B. Wells was born into a family of sharecroppers in Holly Springs, Mississippi, on July 16, 1862. Author and professor Rychetta Watkins has researched Wells for publications. She came from this family that managed to stay in tact even in the midst of slavery, and her father was politically active, said Watkins. The deadly yellow fever outbreak of 1878 that swept the Mid-South took the lives of both of Wells parents and an infant brother and drove Wells, just 16 years old, to Memphis with her siblings. For Wells, family was everything, so she took on a teaching job at a small school house to care for her family. Wells is described as a elegant and striking. ....
2:31 pm UTC May. 26, 2021 Editor s note: The following may include first-person accounts of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre contain graphic depictions and antiquated racial terminology. We have chosen not to edit these survivor accounts to leave their stories unencumbered by interpretation or exclusion. Mother, I see men with guns. Mary Parrish was reading when her daughter alerted her to the violence coming to their doorstep. The daughter, Florence Mary, 6, called the young journalist and teacher to the window. Like many Black Tulsans in Greenwood, they fled as bullets flew and houses were set afire that night of May 31, 1921. Built by the sons of slaves, Greenwood in the early 20th century grew into America s most prosperous Black community, only to be destroyed in 18 hours of murder and destruction by a white mob. ....