Terrell, Mary Church, 4, 7, 7, 102
13th, 114
Thompson, James R. “Jim,” 10
timeline of events, 68–77
To Keep the Waters Troubled (McMurry), 78
Tometi, Opal, 89
train passengers, 38–43, 40, 66
TransAfrica Forum, 109
Trotter, William Monroe, 4, 18, 87–88, 104, 104
Trump, Donald, 88, 90, 115, 118, 124
Tubman, Harriet, 7, 7, 125
Ture, Kwame, 42
Tuskegee Airmen, 28
U
Underground Railroad, 49, 51
unions, 30, 104, 113
United Kingdom, 102
Universal Negro Improvement Association, 4, 100, 108
V
Vietnam War, 98
violence, 2, 90, 112 gun, 118–21, 119
lynching, see lynching
murder of Black soldiers, 19–27, 24
police, 80, 82, 89–91, 97, 124, 126
sexual, 80, 82
voting registration, 31, 121
voting rights, 125, 133 for African American men, 60, 60, 125
Voting Rights Act, 42
for women, 7, 34–38, 37, 93, 102, 107, 124, 125
voting suppression, 90, 124
Vox, 94
W
Walker, Madam C. J., 4, 109
Washington Bee, 45
Washington Post, 91
Waters, Maxine, 118
Wells, Elizabeth, 57–63, 79, 143
Wells, Ida B., 1–7, 57–67, 78–80, 82–84, 93–94, 100–104, 133 appearance and clothing of, 45–46
author’s relationship to, 10–15
birth of, 57
childhood of, 59
desk of, 144
house of, 139, 140
Illinois state senate campaign of, 93
“Iola” pen name of, 44–45
journalism career of, 3, 7, 43–52, 110, 143
legacy of, 136
memorials and monuments to, 136–45
parents of, 57–64, 79, 143
passport denied, 2, 109
printing press of, 100, 141–43
as probation officer, 18, 38
Pulitzer Prize Special Citation awarded to, 7, 114
in suffrage march, 35–37, 37
teaching career of, 39, 41, 46, 52, 64, 82–84, 100, 143
train segregation and, 38–43, 40
travels of, 102
twenty-fifth birthday journal entry of, 46–49
Wilson and, 17, 87, 87
Wells, Ida B., writings of The Arkansas Race Riot, 104, 113
The East St. Louis Massacre, 112
Lynch Law in Georgia, 110, 110
Mob Rule in New Orleans, 110
The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World’s Columbian Exposition, 39
Southern Horrors, 4
Wells, James, 57–64, 79, 143
When They See Us, 114
Wilder, Douglas, 121
Williams, Serena, 82
Wilson, Darren, 89
Wilson, Woodrow, 2, 23–24, 24, 35, 87, 88, 104 Ida and, 17, 87, 87
Wise, Korey, 115
Women’s Era Club, 102
Women’s Second Ward Republican Club, 34, 37
women’s rights, 124–25 suffrage movement, 7, 34–38, 37, 93, 102, 107, 124, 125
World War I, 24, 28, 93, 104, 109, 112
World War II, 28, 30
Y
yellow fever, 62–63
Z
Zimmerman, George, 121
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