Gwen Harmon, director of governmental and community affairs at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, discussed Ida B. Wells efforts to publicize lynchings in the early 20th century.

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A 1,000-square-foot mosaic of civil rights leader, suffragist, and anti-lynching advocate Ida B. Wells will be at Union Station starting Monday, August 24. The art installation, “Our Story: Portraits ...

Michelle is also the Co-Chair of the Ida B. Wells Commemorative Art Committee that is raising $300,000 to have a monument created by world-renowned sculptor, Richard Hunt, to honor Ida B. Wells in ...

While women of color have been sometimes overlooked throughout history, you can’t miss suffragist and civil rights icon Ida B. Wells inside Washington, D.C.’s Union Station right now. A new ...

Daniel (L) and Michelle (C) Duster attend the dedication of a monument to their great-grandmother, journalist, educator, and civil rights leader, Ida B. Wells on June 30, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois.

The Ida B. Wells Commemorative Art Committee commissioned Hunt to build the Light of Truth Ida B. Wells National Monument. In 2021, it was unveiled at the site of the Ida B. Wells Homes, ...

Wells was also the recipient of a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 2020. The monument came as a result of Chicago’s demolition of the Chicago Housing Authority’s Ida B. Wells homes in 2011.

It’s been 100 years since American women were granted the right to vote. To commemorate this milestone, a massive mosaic of suffragist and civil rights leader, Ida B. Wells, is being installed ...