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The following video clips were digitalized by us from a documentary called

"Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice. New York: William Greaves Production, 1989. Videorecording."

1) This clip shows how blacks were mistreated and thought to be inferior after the Civil War.

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2) This clip tells the incident of how Ida was kicked off the whites first class section of a train while riding to work one day.

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3) This is part 2 of the above clip: how Ida sued the railroad company, yet the order was reversed years later.

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4) This clip shows how Frederick Douglass, a well-known civil rights leader, appreciated the works Ida did.

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5) Watch how Ida reacted after the lynchings of three of her friends: Moss, McDowell, and Stewart.

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6) Watch the introduction to this video

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7) Watch a clip of how Ida's newspaper office was destroyed by a white mob.

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8) Watch a clip about the Red.

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9) A clip describing Ida's method of journalism.

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Audio:

1) NPR Broadcast (National Public Radio) npr.org (RealOne Player can be downloaded from site)

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This segment is from
Morning Edition
Tuesday, April 30, 2002

Description from NPR:
"Ida B. Wells
Charlene Scott, of member station WFCR, has the story behind an acclaimed theater director who decided to try his hand at writing. Tazewell Thompson's first original play, Constant Star, is about Ida B Wells, the little-known co-founder of the NAACP and a civil rights activist. (6:57) ."