Letter from Frederick Douglass on Behalf of Ida B. Wells
Episode 6 | 58sVideo has Closed Captions
This NYPL Treasure features an 1894 letter from Frederick Douglass to Rev. R.A. Armstrong.
Join Cheryl Beredo of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture as she dissects an 1894 letter sent from Frederick Douglass to Rev. R.A. Armstrong. The letter was sent on behalf of Ida. B. Wells and is now a part of the NYPL’s Polonsky Exhibition.
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Letter from Frederick Douglass on Behalf of Ida B. Wells
Episode 6 | 58sVideo has Closed Captions
Join Cheryl Beredo of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture as she dissects an 1894 letter sent from Frederick Douglass to Rev. R.A. Armstrong. The letter was sent on behalf of Ida. B. Wells and is now a part of the NYPL’s Polonsky Exhibition.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipCheryl: This is an 1894 letter from Frederick Douglass to Reverend R.A. Armstrong written on behalf of Ida B.
Wells.
Ida B.
Wells was a journalist and an activist, perhaps best known for her pamphlets on lynching in the United States.
She was born enslaved in Mississippi in 1862, and she joined the staff and became a publisher of the Black newspaper Memphis Free Speech.
Shortly after the publication of "Southern Horrors," "Lynch Law in all its Phases," 1892, Ida B.
Wells toured the U.S. and Great Britain to promote the anti-lynching cause.
Letters of introduction and support like this one written by the then elder statesman Frederick Douglass to the Reverend R.A. Armstrong in England praised Wells' character and lent further strength to her efforts.
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