Here's hoping that the monument will be erected.
After being ejected from the train in 1884, Ms. Wells began a life-long crusade to bring equality for her people. She stopped teaching and began publishing a Memphis newspaper, the Free Speech and Headlight. She brought to public knowledge the lynching of blacks in the South.
In 1894 she came to Chicago and married Ferdinand Barnett, a black attorney. They raised four children in a fashionable brownstone on what is now Martin Luther King Drive.
This became home base for campaigns against segregation. She was a founder of the local NAACP and an ally of suffragist Susan B. Anthony. Wells died in 1931.
The monument will stand in the middle of a new economically and racially diverse housing development on the site of the old Ida B. Wells Homes.
They expect the monument to cost $300,000.
Quite a Woman. --Cooter
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