Our GEM for the week is Ida Bell Wells-Barnett
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, also known as Ida B. Wells, was an American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She was born into slavery, Wells became an orphan at the age of 16 and was forced to support herself and her siblings by pretending she was older and becoming a teacher. She put herself through University and became a writer, an editor of her own news publication and a political activist on racial injustice. After the lynching of two friends, she conducted research on how lynching was used as a way to control or punish African-Americans, rather than being based on criminal acts. Wells was also active in the American suffrage movement.
She documented lynching in the United States, showing that it was often used as a way to control or punish blacks who competed with whites, rather than being based on criminal acts by blacks, as was usually claimed by white mobs. Wells was a skilled and persuasive rhetorician and traveled internationally on lecture tours.
She was born in July 16, 1862 at Holly Springs, Mississippi, U.S. And She died in March 25, 1931 (aged 68) at Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Her life story is an inspiration to women. She was born a slave and made an orphan in her teen but she never placed boundaries of limitations to her goals and achievements in life. Nothing can limit you from achieving your height in life except yourself. Life and People will mock you, put you down, friends and family will desert you but I tell you all hope is not lost. Dare to dream 'cos if you can dream it, you can achieve it.
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