Fearless Journalist And All-Round Badass Ida B. Wells Honored With Google Doodle:
Doodle celebrates the civil rights activist’s 153rd birthday.
It is very important to acknowledge outstanding people and show them the respect they deserve. Ida Wells is one such lady. She was forerunner in the discrimination movement in the USA and got her messages across not by rioting and civil disobedience but through EDUCATION, the power of the pen and a beat-up typewriter.Ida B. Wells was 22 when a conductor with the C&O Railroad Company demanded that she give up her seat to a white men. She refused his demands. The conductor attempted to forcibly drag her out of her seat; this lady was not going anywhere.
The moment he caught hold of my arm I fastened my teeth in the back of his hand, she wrote in her autobiography. I had braced my feet against the seat in front and was holding to the back, and as he had already been badly bitten he didn’t try it again by himself. He went forward and got the baggage man and another man to help him and of course they succeeded in dragging me out.
Wells was born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi in 1862. She dedicated her life to civil rights, became a prolific writer/journalist who directed her life to fighting for equality, traveling around the world spreading her message.
Google honored the “fearless and uncompromising” woman with a Doodle on their homepage today on her 153rd birthday.
Wells died in Chicago of kidney failure in 1931. She was 68.
Ida Wells was a very strong person that expressed her opinions and standards in life regardless of the backlash of the opposition. For that she should be admired and respected as a role model for all races.
Let us be realistic ladies and gents. Even if some of us are still on the fence when it comes to equality among the races; at some point and time we have to come to terms with the fact, even if we don’t totally agree; do we want or kids and grand-kids to have to live in such a dysfunctional society as we have created?
I guess WE hold to keys to the future!!!! Let us us them wisely and open the right doors.
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