Tag: Women’s Rights Activists

Anniversary of the Birthday of Ida B. Wells, Civil & Women’s Rights Activist

By Tony Pettinato on July 16, 2015

Today is the 153rd anniversary of the birth of famed African American journalist, speaker, civil rights activist and suffragist Ida Bell Wells. As a journalist, Wells wrote for the Chicago newspaper the Daily Inter Ocean. She gained fame for her investigative reporting of lynching in the U.S., demonstrating that in many cases African Americans... (Read More)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jackie Robinson & Rosa Parks Obituaries

By Tony Pettinato on October 23, 2013

During this October week in American history three pioneering activists died who had a big impact on American society: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American women’s rights activist, died at 86 on 26 October 1902 Jack Roosevelt “Jackie” Robinson, American baseball player and civil rights activist, died at 53 on 24 October 1972 Rosa Louise McCauley... (Read More)