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Zombie thread! :wildeyed: :lol:

 

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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

• -- Ida B. Wells

 

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Great quotes. You would think that after all the racism, murder, Jim Crow, lynching, beatings, rapings, ect. that African-Americans endured in this country's history, that they will all be the biggest proponents of owning arms and carrying arms for self-defense.

However, many align themselves with candidates and parties who want to continually disarm them. How sad and tragic.

I have met quite a few African-Americans here in Georgia that are strong proponents of being armed all the time, and it always puts a huge smile on my face as they "get it."

Its hard to enslave and rule over an armed person.

 

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I had never heard of Ida Wells, at least that I remember, and now I want to get my hands on some of her writings.

 

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I've heard her name before, but I cannot remember where. If her writings are that good, then it may be something to definitely look into. She's obviously very intelligent.

 

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Wow, this woman has a rich and amazing history and lineage. I think her name rings a bell from a history class.

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 â€" March 25, 1931) was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist and, with her husband, newspaper owner Ferdinand L. Barnett, an early leader in the civil rights movement. She documented lynching in the United States, showing how it was often a way to control or punish blacks who competed with whites. She was active in the women's rights and the women's suffrage movement, establishing several notable women's organizations. Wells was a skilled and persuasive rhetorician, and traveled internationally on lecture tours.[1]

Ida Bell Wells was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi in 1862,[2] just before President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Her father was James Wells and her mother was Elizabeth "Lizzie" Warrenton Wells. Both parents were enslaved until freed under the Proclamation.[3]

Ida's father James was a master at carpentry and a "race man" who worked for the advancement of blacks. He was very interested in politics and was a member of the Loyal League. He attended Shaw U. in Holly Springs (now Rust College) but dropped out to help his family. He also attended public speeches and campaigned for local black candidates, but he never ran for office.[3] Her mother Lizzie was a cook for the Bolling household before her death from yellow fever. She was a religious woman who was very strict with her children.

Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_B._Wells

 

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"The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow": http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/index.html

"Jim Crow Stories," Ida Wells: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories ... wells.html

In Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, a compilation of her notes published in 1892, she wrote that lynching was “an excuse to get rid of ******* who were acquiring wealth and property and thus keep the race terrorized.â€

In 1900, she wrote Mob Rule in New Orleans: Robert Charles and His Fight to Death, the Story of His Life, Burning Human Beings Alive, Other Lynching Statistics, the story of Robert Charles, a black man whose July death sparked the famous New Orleans race riots in July 1900.

Ms. Wells was disappointed that not much information was written about her so she wrote two autobiographies before her death: The Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells and The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells: An Intimate Portrait of the Activist as a Young Woman

http://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/dir/wells-ba ... index.html

It appears she did a lot of writing in newpapers as well.

 

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"Our Revolution commenced on more favorable ground. It presented us an album on which we were free to write what we pleased. We had no occasion to search into musty records, to hunt up royal parchments, or to investigate the laws and institutions of a semi-barbarous ancestry. We appealed to those of nature, and found them engraved on our hearts. Yet we did not avail ourselves of all the advantages of our position. We had never been permitted to exercise self-government. When forced to assume it, we were novices in its science. Its principles and forms had entered little into our former education. We established however some, although not all its important principles. The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, (as in electing their functionaries executive and legislative, and deciding by a jury of themselves, in all judiciary cases in which any fact is involved,) or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of the press."

-- Thomas Jefferson, pp.46 - 47, "The Living Thoughts of Thomas Jefferson, Presented by John Dewey", Fawcett Publications, Inc., Greenwich, Conn. Emphasis added.