Radio 2010). This family hid from the Nazis for 2 years they just stayed in that annex while Miep tried several times to get them out, but she failed. In addition, in the passage “The story of Ida B. Wells.” they talk & describe the story of Ida B. Wells it’s somehow a short biography about Wells. Wells now only freed herself from slavery, but was brave enough to go back & rescue her people. Everyone should know that in the past people of color were segregated &
Anna Julia Cooper and Ida B. Wells are both powerful African American women, who are prevalent in understanding the intertwine of race, class, and gender in late nineteenth and early-to-mid twentieth centuries. Each woman had a different cause, they viewed the world having different problems and need different solutions. These woman for their beliefs were perceived as radical for their time. Anna Julia Cooper was born enslaved in North Carolina. Coopers life of education started early, at the age
by Ida B. Wells Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) was a fearless anti-lynching crusader, American journalist, and Women’s rights activist. Wells grew up in Holly Springs, Mississippi with her six siblings. Wells’ parents died in her late childhood and she was left to raise her siblings or to be put in foster care. Wells had to mature very quickly to support her family. Wells secured a job as a teacher in an all-black school. Wells continued her education by attending the nearby Rust College. Wells eventually
White women’s bodies were profoundly more protected by the legal system, and this was demonstrated through the prosecution of the men accused of assaulting them. In Ida B. Wels’s newspaper, Memphis Free Speech, she documented the lynching of “5 negroes” charged with “raping white women”, and their immediate assumed guilt because of the “old thread bear lie”, where black men were stereotyped as “black beast rapists”. Another instance of