(1862-1931) Ida B. Wells was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, months before the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. When her parents died in 1880 as a result of a yellow fever plague in Holly Springs, Wells took it upon herself to become a teacher in Holly Springs in order to support her younger siblings. While living in Memphis, Wells became an editor and co-owner of a local black newspaper called "The Free Speech and Headlight." She wrote her editorials under the pen-name "Iola."
"I'm sick of tired of being sick of tired". I think this saying means that when you go through so much in your life you just get tired of going through it. Theres other examples of this saying but the list goes on.
Joanna Chesimard also known as Assata Shakurs been living in Cuba since 1986, after escaping from prison where she was serving a life sentence. Assata was a black panther and a black liberation Army leader in the early 1070's. She was a target of the FBI'S COINTELPRO operation. She is the aunt and godmother of Tupac Shakur.
Who:Civil rights pioneer of the 1960's. Height, who was chair and President emirta of the national council of Negro women, worked in the 1960's alongside Martin Luther King Jr.
Holocaust, name was given to the period of persecution and extermination of European Jews by Nazi's and Germany. The persecution of German Jews began when Hitler's rise to over power Hitler's rise toover power Germany in 1933. The Holocaust started in 1933 and ended in 1945 with the end of ww2 (world war 2).
