Memphis Memorial Committee - Honoring Ida B. Wells

Happy Birthday Ida B. Wells - Celebrating her at the Historic First Baptist Church Beale one of the locations of her office where she published the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight/.

Celebrating Ida B. Well’s Birthday at Historic First Baptist Church Beale Street!

Thank you for those who joined us for the Birthday Celebration and Unveiling of Phase II of the Ida B. Wells Plaza Memphis, TN

Ida B. Wells Celebration - Unveiling & Groundbreaking of Phase II

Please join the Memphis Memorial Committee for the Annual Ida B. Wells Celebration. As we celebrate her birthday, Saturday, July 16, 2022, the Committee & supporters will unveil plans for the revitalization of the plaza and break ground for construction.

Join us for the celebration at the Ida B. Wells Plaza at the corner of Ida B. Wells and Beale Street at 12 Noon.

For more information, contact [email protected] or visit our website at www.idabwellsmemphis.org.

Co-Hosted by the Downtown Memphis Commission.

As we approach the Anniversary of installing the Statue. Please see a little background on the creation of the statue.

https://www.commercialappeal.com/videos/news/local/2021/07/21/behind-creation-ida-b-wells-statue-beale-street/8007851002/

Behind the creation of Ida B. Wells statue on Beale Street Ida B. Wells statue stands at Beale Street and Fourth. Here's an inside look at how it was created and Wells' history in Memphis.

https://youtu.be/oZBnUftOlfY

President Biden Signs Into Law H.R. 55, the “Emmett Till Antilynching Act” The White House

UPDATE: The Memphis Memorial Committee invites you to join us for a Tour of the Emmett Till Trail and the events of his life.
MARCH 26th beginning at 6:00 a.m. and returning at 6:30 p.m. The PICK UP POINT is NEW SARDIS BAPTIST CHURCH 7739 East Holmes Rd.

Tickets $100.00 Includes the cost of admission and travel
Due Date Extended to March 21, 2022

To purchase tickets please contact:
Heritage Tours at 901-527-3427
or email - [email protected]

Sponsored by: Memphis Memorial Committee

It’s Official… Street name after Ida B. Wells in Memphis

The Memphis Memorial Committee invites you to join us for a Tour of the Emmett Till Trail and the events of his life.
MARCH 26th beginning at 6:00 a.m. and returning at 6:30 p.m.

Tickets $100.00 Includes the cost of admission and travel
Due: March 15, 2022

To purchase tickets please contact:
Heritage Tours at 901-527-3427
or email - [email protected]

Sponsored by: Memphis Memorial Committee

Ida B. Wells-Barnett had to flee Memphis. Now she has a street named after her
https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/2022/01/18/ida-b-wells-barnett-memphis-tennessee-street-renamed-newspaper/6570484001/

Ida B. Wells-Barnett had to flee Memphis. Now she has a street named after her The Memphis City Council voted Tuesday to rename Fourth Street between E.H. Crump Boulevard and Union Avenue as Ida B. Wells-Barnett Street.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/01/12/ida-wells-barbie-doll-mattel/

Ida B. Wells, Black journalist and suffragist, honored with new Barbie doll Wells, who was born into slavery in Mississippi in 1862, broke boundaries fighting for the right to vote.

Lynching site visit remembers victims of the past A ceremony Thursday at the site of three lynchings more than a century ago was part of a week of Ida B. Wells events leading up to Friday’s statue unveiling. 

Ninety years before the Ida B. Wells statue, Memphians wanted to name a park after her - TSDMemphis.com by Laura Faith Kebede — This week’s statue unveiling for Ida B. Wells is not the first time Memphis attempted to honor the famed journalist and suffragist with a landmark. In 1931, the year Wells died, her long-time friend and fellow activist Julia Hooks pushed for Memphis leaders to name a new ...

Ida B. Wells statue unveiling spotlights legendary figure’s courage during Memphis’ dark civil rights past Friday’s unveiling of a statue of Ida B. Wells will shine a light on a courageous civil rights figure, said L. LaSimba M Gray Jr.

Think Ida B. Wells and then answer this: ‘What are you willing to suffer?’ - TSDMemphis.com In the historic church that housed the newspaper produced by fear-defying journalist Ida B. Wells, the spearhead of the effort to honor her with a Memphis statue issued “a call to action” during a Sunday evening (July 11) worship service. “A man or woman should not be judged by what they say o...

Join us Tuesday for a Panel Discussion - DARE TO TELL THE TRUTH: Exploring the Enduring Legacy of Ida B. Robert Wells

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Dr. Charles McKinney, The Neville Ferguson Bryan Chair of Africana Studies at Rhodes College will moderate.
Panelists:
• Wendi Thomas, Founder and Publisher, MLK50
• Dr. Rychetta Watkins, author of “The Southern Roots of Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s Revolutionary Activism”
• Rev. Dr. Rosalyn R. Nichols is the organizing pastor of Freedom's Chapel Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
(Email [email protected] to request an invitation.)

REGISTER TODAY: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gCtsOPCdTzGcoNNP4PPiFg

Calling all Ministers…. please join the Memphis Memorial Committee for a discussion on “How to Stay Awake in the Midst of a Revolution”.

For more information, visit idabwellsmemphis.org

This Thursday, the Memphis Memorial Committee will take a Pilgrimage to the Lynching Site and Grave site of Thomas Moss …. Visit idabwellsmemphis.org for more information.

Getting ready for the Memorial Week

Join us Tuesday for a Panel Discussion - DARE TO TELL THE TRUTH: Exploring the Enduring Legacy of Ida B. Robert Wells

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Dr. Charles McKinney, The Neville Ferguson Bryan Chair of Africana Studies at Rhodes College will moderate.
Panelists:
• Wendi Thomas, Founder and Publisher, MLK50
• Dr. Rychetta Watkins, author of “The Southern Roots of Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s Revolutionary Activism”
• Rev. Dr. Rosalyn R. Nichols is the organizing pastor of Freedom's Chapel Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
(Email [email protected] to request an invitation.)

REGISTER TODAY: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gCtsOPCdTzGcoNNP4PPiFg

JULY 16th is COMING!
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See a little more about Ida B Wells and her connection with the Historic First Baptist Church Beale.

https://youtu.be/p9Y9xJxKU7M

Memphis Heritage Trail First Baptist Beale Street Church The Memphis Heritage Trail highlights the civil rights struggle in Memphis, Tennessee. This video highlights one of the first churches in the south built for...