Ida B. Wells-Barnett Social Justice Weekend July 12-15, 2018 MAJOR EVENTS OPENING SESSION, PANEL DISCUSSION & RECEPTION Ida B. Wells-Barnett Panel Thursday, July 12, 2018 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Doxey Hall PRAYER BREAKFAST Friday, July 13, 2018 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Asbury United Methodist Church DEBUT OF IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT SPECIAL COLLECTION Friday,…
Event Highlights: Newspaper Articles
A featured article in The South Reporter newspaper stated, “The Inaugural Annual Ida B. Wells-Barnett Social Justice Weekend program, sponsored by the city of Holly Springs in collaboration with Rust College and the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Museum, came to a successful conclusion…” The IBWBSJW events were covered by different media outlets, to include Pigeon Roost…
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Ida B. Wells, greatly influenced by the brutal 1892 lynching of three African-American men in Memphis, TN, Tom Moss, Calvin McDowell and Will Stewart in 1892, Wells was inspired to write articles decrying the lynching of African Americans. Putting her own life at risk, she spent two months traveling in the South, gathering information on…
Celebrating the Life and Times of the “Mother of Civil Rights and Social Justice”
“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”
Giants of Rust College Past and Present
Ida B. Wells-Barnett, (born July 16, 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi), is a product of Shaw University (now Rust College), a school for newly freed slaves where she received her education and early schooling. Orphaned at the age of 16 following the death of her parents, Ida became a teacher in segregated public schools in…
Ida B. Wells-Barnett Social Justice Weekend 