#and the one i found implied that coverage for dependants was only won after 2018? so the hall boys were NOT included

[irregularbillcipher]

working on some lisa stuff and like. no wonder birdie can't budget or plan easily. how do you plan for this, ESPECIALLY as a single parent, ESPECIALLY as one with a seriously ill kid who might require you to take sudden and unexpected absences

[auburnfamilynews]

We're taking an early look at Auburn's opponents for the 2018 regular season. This 12-part series will feature analysis and occasional insight from beat reporters who cover the teams Auburn will play this year.

LSU

Game date & time: Jordan-Hare Stadium, Sept. 15 at 2:30 p.m. CT on CBS

2017 record: (9-4, 6-2 SEC)

Coach: Ed Orgeron, second year (15-6 at LSU, 31-33 overall)

Betting line: Auburn by 12

Returning starters: 5 offense, 5 defense, 2 specialists

Most important returning players: QB Myles Brennan, TE Foster Moreau, DB Andraez "Greedy" Williams, LB Devin White, S Grant Delpit

Most critical departures: DE Arden Key, RB Derrius Guice, WR DJ Chark, QB Danny Etling

Insight from LSU beat reporter Brody Miller (@BrodyAMiller):

How has the offense changed yet again from Matt Canada to Steve Ensminger? It's hard to pretend anybody knows exactly what the offense will look like. Ensminger admitted in June only 50 percent of the offense was implemented through spring ball. Ed Orgeron said at media days much of what LSU can do throughout the year will be dependent on what the quarterback shows he can do week one against Miami. What we do know is what they tell us, and they tell us it's going to a much more pass-oriented offense than what LSU is used to. One can expect to see the Tigers go with four- or five-receiver sets, which is another change. Ensminger said he considers the receivers to be the strength of the offense, and he wants the play-calling to reflect that. The phrase he used was, "It's gonna be a throw first and run when they give it to us." The aggressive move to sign graduate transfer Joe Burrow from Ohio State reflects that mindset, which leads us to our next question.

Is there any chance Joe Burrow isn't the starter at this point in the season? If you're a man who believes in the power of the gambling bookmakers, BetDSI placed odds of +130 on Burrow being the starter. Those odds, theoretically, imply he has less than a 50 percent shot in the four-man race with Myles Brennan (+270), Lowell Narcisse (+360) and Justin McMillan (+510). In reality, it's certainly Burrow's job to lose. Orgeron is saying all the right things about it being an even race to start camp and that everyone will get equal reps at first, but LSU wants Burrow to take this job. He fits what Ensminger wants, which is an accurate quarterback, and clearly none of the other three showed the staff enough in spring if they went for Burrow so hard this summer. I would say +130 is good bet to take, but there's definitely a chance he doesn't win it.

Who is most likely to emerge as LSU's top running back and wide receiver? LSU definitely sees it as a running back by committee situation, which is another rarity for LSU after seemingly having a star NFL-level rusher every year. Ensminger, always one to be blunt, flat-out said they don't know who the running back is. Clyde Edwards-Helaire is most likely to be No. 1 on the depth chart after a good spring. He's the one coaches point to most, but Nick Brossette will get carries and Ensminger said Lanard Fournette (Yes, Leonard's brother) could be the physical third-down back. Freshman Chris Curry is the wild card name to watch. At receiver, Texas Tech-transfer Jonathan Giles is likely the No. 1 guy. He's been given the prestigious No. 7 jersey, and reports in the spring were the LSU defensive backs couldn't defend him. Receivers coach Mickey Joseph said last month nobody has clearly become the guy, but Giles or Justin Jefferson seem most likely.

Who takes over for Arden Key and Donte Jackson? K'Lavon Chaisson will take over for Arden Key. He was a highly-touted prospect coming in and filled in when Key was out last year. He's shown flashes of hitting his massive potential. Whether he reaches it in 2018 remains to be seen. Cornerback is the main question mark -- aside from that darn quarterback position. Stanford graduate transfer Terrence Alexander is likely who LSU hopes steps up and is probably the front runner there. LSU defensive coordinator Dave Aranda has spoken highly of his intelligence and quickness, but we will know more when camp comes. Kary Vincent is going to come in and try to beat out Alexander for that spot, and Aranda thinks he's earned a chance to compete for it, but it's probably Alexander's to lose.

If LSU loses to Miami, what would a win or loss against Auburn mean? If LSU beats Miami, what would a win or loss against Auburn mean? After loss to Miami: A loss to Auburn would probably make LSU 1-2. No matter how much people might be preparing for a down year and know the schedule is tough, the optics there are awful. I'm not saying it would be right or wrong, but a 1-2 start would cause a lot of noise for Orgeron. That could create a scenario in which LSU might be 3-6 going into Arkansas. A win would basically mean starting the season 0-0. I don't think many people would reasonably expect LSU to win both the Miami and Auburn games away from home. If LSU splits those two, the season is essentially on an even keel. After win against Miami: Refer to my last point if they lose to Auburn. LSU will be a decent underdog going into Auburn, so if it beats Miami and loses to Auburn, things will basically be going as expected. If LSU beats both Miami and Auburn? Well, that will have probably meant Joe Burrow was the star people want him to be. Orgeron will look great for bringing in Burrow, and he will have just won two marquis road games. His stock will be at its highest. LSU will still have a brutal final nine games, but Orgeron will have gained the capital to make it through some losses.

Auburn story lines:

Avenging last year's loss The collapse in Baton Rouge will be the motivating factor for those who endured the blown 20-point lead, but there will be plenty more on the line in this SEC opener.

SEC opener As referenced, this is the SEC opener for both teams and will be a chance for both to set the tone for several weeks. Both Auburn and LSU could enter at 2-0 off big non-conference wins, giving the winner the early lead for contending in the West with Alabama. Both could be 1-1 with a loss to Washington and Miami, respectively, and in need of a big win to get momentum started. Or one could be 2-0 and the other is 1-1, in which case the opportunity is there to deliver a potentially devastating blow to postseason hopes or to rebound from an early loss.

Where the offensive line stands Center is seemingly the only position truly up for grabs entering the season but after two games, including one that could see a lot of personnel rotation against ASU, any adjustments to the offensive line could be done by the end of this week.

Running back rotation Similarly, if a second and third back emerged during the first two weeks  a pecking order may be clear heading into this game. Against Dave Aranda, the more certainty Auburn has the better.

Javaris Davis vs. Greedy Williams Two of the best cornerbacks in the SEC should be a showcase of man-to-man coverage and both can be gamebreakers. Who Aranda chooses to line Williams up against will have a big impact on Auburn's passing strategy.

LSU story lines:

Ed Orgeron's status Even after a nine-win season there is chatter about Orgeron due in large part to LSU's offensive struggles and the replacement of Matt Canada after one year. If LSU comes in at 1-1, regardless of how Auburn is doing there will be plenty of talk about Orgeron being on the hot seat with another loss.

Steve Ensminger returns to Auburn Auburn's former offensive coordinator has been back to the Plains before with LSU but not as the play-caller. Just as Orgeron became the interim head coach after LSU's loss at Auburn in 2016, Ensminger became the interim OC for the rest of that season.

How is Joe Burrow leading a different style of offense? Assuming Burrow does indeed win the job, how different is LSU's offense and is he the right fit to lead it?

Running back rotation It's hard to believe given LSU's pedigree of running backs that there's no clear starter entering the season. Against a very good Auburn rush defense, LSU may need to hope it found answers during the first two weeks.

Les Miles It was after the 2016 loss, which had one of the most dramatic finishes in a rivalry full of them, that Miles lost his job. If LSU is 1-1 and the heat is turning up on Oregon as mentioned, the analogies to Miles will be made all week.

An Auburn win would mean:

Starting SEC play on the right foot and improving to either 2-1 or 3-0. Auburn will be in line got two more wins and the Oct. 6 trip to Starkville becomes even bigger in the SEC West race.

An Auburn loss would mean:

This will depend a lot on what happens in the season opener. If Auburn were to fall to 2-1, it would be a seemingly missed opportunity against an LSU team that most expect to be rebuilding on offense. However, as last year illustrated, one SEC loss won't derail Auburn's hopes entirely. But if Auburn enters at 1-1, falling to 1-2 would be a brutal way to start the season and be devastating for its playoff hopes.

James Crepea is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @JamesCrepea.

from Auburn Sports Impact http://www.al.com/auburnfootball/index.ssf/2018/07/auburn_opponent_early_scouting_12.html

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To celebrate Ida B. Wells on her birthday, here are five powerful stories you haven't heard

To celebrate Ida B. Wells on her birthday, here are five powerful stories you haven't heard

On July 16th, we commemorate the birthday of Ida B. Wells (1862-1931), a true champion of the people - the founder of the National Association of Colored Women and a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Wells was known for being a radical anti-lynching journalist, but that only describes one part of her extraordinary life. To celebrate her, I'm here to tell you five true stories about Wells's life that prove there was more to this legendary woman than you may have heard before.

1. She defended herself against a racist train conductor, and then she sued him.

When Ida B. Wells was 20 years old, she bought a first-class train ticket going from Memphis, Tennessee to Woodstock, where she had a job as a teacher. When the train conductor came through the car to punch tickets, he politely informed the young Wells that she was in the wrong car and needed to move, and until she did, he could not accept her ticket. Ida insisted that she knew exactly what car she was in, and it was not the wrong one. The exchange that followed is best retold by Ida herself. Court documents quote her as saying,  “He said to me that he would treat me like a lady, but that I must go into the other car, and I replied, that if he wished to treat me like a lady, he would leave me alone.”

The shadiness of this exchange was not warning enough for the conductor. Later, Wells wrote in her autobiography, “[The conductor] tried to drag me out of the seat, but the moment he caught hold of my arm I fastened my teeth in the back of his hand.”

Just to recap: When a racist train conductor put his hands on a 20-year-old Ida B Wells and demanded she move to the colored car, she not only refused - she fought back when he attempted to physically remove her.

This story of self-defense would be amazing on its own if it ended here, but Ida was never one to leave well enough alone. When she got back to Memphis, she found an attorney and sued the railroad company for $500 (the equivalent of about $11,000 in 2015)  AND. SHE. WON. The railroad company was ordered to pay Wells $500, but the verdict was later appealed and overturned in the Tennessee Supreme Court because haters gon' hate.

Ida B. Wells was born in slavery on July 16, 1862 in Mississippi. Prominent journalist, educator, Civil Rights Movement leader, and founder of the National Association of Colored Women. She became a leading anti-lynching activist. Love this picture of her! #slaveryarchive #OTD pic.twitter.com/NlBGoquEAT

- Dr. Ana Lucia Araujo (@analuciaraujo_) July 16, 2018

2. She was fired for calling out her racist bosses.

For context, Ida was riding the Southwestern Railroad Company train that day to get to her job as a teacher at a school for African-American children. The eventual lawsuit generated so much public interest that Ida wrote about it in a weekly publication for Black Christians known as The Living Way - a move that kick-started her writing career. The young educator used her new platform to call out Memphis establishments that supported segregation. Separate but equal policies weren't working, and Ida was not ashamed to say it.

By the age of 28, Ida had found her editorial voice and was writing under the pen name Iola. She was the co-editor of a popular Black-owned newspaper in Memphis called the Free Speech and Headlight, and as an educator, she used this platform to argue that the quality of education offered to Black students was sub-par compared to the education offered to their white counterparts. Her editorial coverage was so inflammatory that the Memphis School Board of Education fired her. Not one to be deterred, Wells chucked up the deuces and transitioned into writing full time, becoming the anti-lynching legend we know today.

"I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a trap.” Pioneering journalist and anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells was born this day in 1862. pic.twitter.com/W4rogJyuU8

- Jacobin (@jacobinmag) July 16, 2018

3. She is one of the founders of the NAACP.

Most people assume that the founding members of the NAACP were a bunch of old Black and Jewish men sitting in a room, discussing racial inequality. This is mostly true. It was a bit of a boys club, but there were also a few women at the first National Afro American Council meeting. This organization would eventually become the NAACP - one of these women was none other than Ida “B. is for Badass” Wells.

That's right. Ida B. Wells is one of the founding members of the NAACP. Despite her presence at that first conference, she wasn't elected one of the founding officers - though one of the other women in attendance made the cut.  There were concerns that Ida's views on lynching were too radical at the time, even though the NAACP was formed in direct response to a lynching that had occurred in Illinois.  

Wells stayed with the organization long enough to be part of the transition from the National Afro-American Council to the NAACP, but she soon butted heads with some of the officers and left. She felt that the boys club didn't have enough action-based initiatives, and she shifted her attention to a cause more known for kicking ass and taking names: women's' suffrage.

"The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press." Ida B. Wells, born on this day in 1862 pic.twitter.com/ulqAzoNcFv

- Ray E. Boomhower (@RayBoomhower) July 16, 2018

4. She had (justified) beef with white feminists of her time.

Wells was one of the most important African-American suffragettes - but she also had quite a few run-ins with white feminists.  Thank God we don't have those kinds of problems anymore (just kidding).

In the early 1900s, she found allies in women like Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Frances Willard. At first, their cause seemed to transcended racism. Then, when the 15th amendment was passed, giving Black men the right to vote - not women - shit hit the fan. Wells sympathized with Black men who were lynched for exercising their new right to vote. Her colleagues, on the other hand, focused their attention on the misogynist political slight - conveniently glazing over the violence inflicted on these men. But Willard felt that, in order to push the Suffrage movement forward, suffragists had to grow their ranks. She encouraged Southern women to join their cause and appealed to them the best way she knew how: by slandering Black people.

Justifiably, Wells and other Black suffragettes took offense when Willard said in an 1890 interview with the New York Voice, “'Better whiskey and more of it' is the rallying cry of great, dark-faced mobs. The safety of [white] women, of childhood, of the home, is menaced in a thousand localities.” She also implied that Black people were drunks who “multiplied like the locusts of Egypt.” Susan B. Anthony herself said, “I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman,” seemingly forgetting that there were women in the world who also happened to be Black.  

Wells, realizing that her allies were as dependable as a wet rag, took her plight overseas. She spoke to British audiences about what an immense problem lynching was for Blacks in the American South. European audiences couldn't believe that white American suffragists didn't speak out against these crimes and gave Willard an opportunity to defend herself in a live debate with Wells in 1894. Ida, not one to be bested, came with receipts and pulled out a copy of the 1890 New York Voice interview at the debate. Game. Set. Match.

Happy Birthday to Ida B. Wells! She paved the way for women of color to gain the right to vote! Find out more here: https://t.co/vcN8hmLqr5 #IdaBWells pic.twitter.com/w1bHU2smX2

- AAUW (@AAUW) July 16, 2018

5. Nobody puts Ida in a corner.

Speaking of racist pseudo-allies, after her beef with Willard and Anthony came to a head, Wells threw her full support of women's suffrage into her local Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago, where she lived at the time. After catching wind of a suffrage parade in 1913, Wells brought her delegation all the way from Chicago to Washington D.C. to march in solidarity.

When they arrived, the organizers of the parade told Ida and her cohorts to march in the back of the parade because, well, racism. When Ida and the Alpha Suffrage Club protested, they were told to walk in the back or not at all. They asked the Illinois Suffrage Club to back them up, but found no support from women who were practically their neighbors. Wells, a true champion of principle, told the organizers that her chapter would not walk. The parade went on as planned, but if you thought Ida B. Badass Wells was done, think again. Once the parade began, Ida marched to the front, hopped the barricade, and marched with the white delegation from Illinois.

***

Happy birthday, Ida B. Wells. Thank you for everything.

The post To celebrate Ida B. Wells on her birthday, here are five powerful stories you haven't heard appeared first on HelloGiggles.

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To celebrate Ida B. Wells on her birthday, here are five powerful stories you haven't heard

To celebrate Ida B. Wells on her birthday, here are five powerful stories you haven't heard

On July 16th, we commemorate the birthday of Ida B. Wells (1862-1931), a true champion of the people - the founder of the National Association of Colored Women and a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Wells was known for being a radical anti-lynching journalist, but that only describes one part of her extraordinary life. To celebrate her, I'm here to tell you five true stories about Wells's life that prove there was more to this legendary woman than you may have heard before.

1. She defended herself against a racist train conductor, and then she sued him.

When Ida B. Wells was 20 years old, she bought a first-class train ticket going from Memphis, Tennessee to Woodstock, where she had a job as a teacher. When the train conductor came through the car to punch tickets, he politely informed the young Wells that she was in the wrong car and needed to move, and until she did, he could not accept her ticket. Ida insisted that she knew exactly what car she was in, and it was not the wrong one. The exchange that followed is best retold by Ida herself. Court documents quote her as saying,  “He said to me that he would treat me like a lady, but that I must go into the other car, and I replied, that if he wished to treat me like a lady, he would leave me alone.”

The shadiness of this exchange was not warning enough for the conductor. Later, Wells wrote in her autobiography, “[The conductor] tried to drag me out of the seat, but the moment he caught hold of my arm I fastened my teeth in the back of his hand.”

Just to recap: When a racist train conductor put his hands on a 20-year-old Ida B Wells and demanded she move to the colored car, she not only refused - she fought back when he attempted to physically remove her.

This story of self-defense would be amazing on its own if it ended here, but Ida was never one to leave well enough alone. When she got back to Memphis, she found an attorney and sued the railroad company for $500 (the equivalent of about $11,000 in 2015)  AND. SHE. WON. The railroad company was ordered to pay Wells $500, but the verdict was later appealed and overturned in the Tennessee Supreme Court because haters gon' hate.

Ida B. Wells was born in slavery on July 16, 1862 in Mississippi. Prominent journalist, educator, Civil Rights Movement leader, and founder of the National Association of Colored Women. She became a leading anti-lynching activist. Love this picture of her! #slaveryarchive #OTD pic.twitter.com/NlBGoquEAT

- Dr. Ana Lucia Araujo (@analuciaraujo_) July 16, 2018

2. She was fired for calling out her racist bosses.

For context, Ida was riding the Southwestern Railroad Company train that day to get to her job as a teacher at a school for African-American children. The eventual lawsuit generated so much public interest that Ida wrote about it in a weekly publication for Black Christians known as The Living Way - a move that kick-started her writing career. The young educator used her new platform to call out Memphis establishments that supported segregation. Separate but equal policies weren't working, and Ida was not ashamed to say it.

By the age of 28, Ida had found her editorial voice and was writing under the pen name Iola. She was the co-editor of a popular Black-owned newspaper in Memphis called the Free Speech and Headlight, and as an educator, she used this platform to argue that the quality of education offered to Black students was sub-par compared to the education offered to their white counterparts. Her editorial coverage was so inflammatory that the Memphis School Board of Education fired her. Not one to be deterred, Wells chucked up the deuces and transitioned into writing full time, becoming the anti-lynching legend we know today.

"I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a trap.” Pioneering journalist and anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells was born this day in 1862. pic.twitter.com/W4rogJyuU8

- Jacobin (@jacobinmag) July 16, 2018

3. She is one of the founders of the NAACP.

Most people assume that the founding members of the NAACP were a bunch of old Black and Jewish men sitting in a room, discussing racial inequality. This is mostly true. It was a bit of a boys club, but there were also a few women at the first National Afro American Council meeting. This organization would eventually become the NAACP - one of these women was none other than Ida “B. is for Badass” Wells.

That's right. Ida B. Wells is one of the founding members of the NAACP. Despite her presence at that first conference, she wasn't elected one of the founding officers - though one of the other women in attendance made the cut.  There were concerns that Ida's views on lynching were too radical at the time, even though the NAACP was formed in direct response to a lynching that had occurred in Illinois.  

Wells stayed with the organization long enough to be part of the transition from the National Afro-American Council to the NAACP, but she soon butted heads with some of the officers and left. She felt that the boys club didn't have enough action-based initiatives, and she shifted her attention to a cause more known for kicking ass and taking names: women's' suffrage.

"The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press." Ida B. Wells, born on this day in 1862 pic.twitter.com/ulqAzoNcFv

- Ray E. Boomhower (@RayBoomhower) July 16, 2018

4. She had (justified) beef with white feminists of her time.

Wells was one of the most important African-American suffragettes - but she also had quite a few run-ins with white feminists.  Thank God we don't have those kinds of problems anymore (just kidding).

In the early 1900s, she found allies in women like Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Frances Willard. At first, their cause seemed to transcended racism. Then, when the 15th amendment was passed, giving Black men the right to vote - not women - shit hit the fan. Wells sympathized with Black men who were lynched for exercising their new right to vote. Her colleagues, on the other hand, focused their attention on the misogynist political slight - conveniently glazing over the violence inflicted on these men. But Willard felt that, in order to push the Suffrage movement forward, suffragists had to grow their ranks. She encouraged Southern women to join their cause and appealed to them the best way she knew how: by slandering Black people.

Justifiably, Wells and other Black suffragettes took offense when Willard said in an 1890 interview with the New York Voice, “'Better whiskey and more of it' is the rallying cry of great, dark-faced mobs. The safety of [white] women, of childhood, of the home, is menaced in a thousand localities.” She also implied that Black people were drunks who “multiplied like the locusts of Egypt.” Susan B. Anthony herself said, “I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman,” seemingly forgetting that there were women in the world who also happened to be Black.  

Wells, realizing that her allies were as dependable as a wet rag, took her plight overseas. She spoke to British audiences about what an immense problem lynching was for Blacks in the American South. European audiences couldn't believe that white American suffragists didn't speak out against these crimes and gave Willard an opportunity to defend herself in a live debate with Wells in 1894. Ida, not one to be bested, came with receipts and pulled out a copy of the 1890 New York Voice interview at the debate. Game. Set. Match.

Happy Birthday to Ida B. Wells! She paved the way for women of color to gain the right to vote! Find out more here: https://t.co/vcN8hmLqr5 #IdaBWells pic.twitter.com/w1bHU2smX2

- AAUW (@AAUW) July 16, 2018

5. Nobody puts Ida in a corner.

Speaking of racist pseudo-allies, after her beef with Willard and Anthony came to a head, Wells threw her full support of women's suffrage into her local Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago, where she lived at the time. After catching wind of a suffrage parade in 1913, Wells brought her delegation all the way from Chicago to Washington D.C. to march in solidarity.

When they arrived, the organizers of the parade told Ida and her cohorts to march in the back of the parade because, well, racism. When Ida and the Alpha Suffrage Club protested, they were told to walk in the back or not at all. They asked the Illinois Suffrage Club to back them up, but found no support from women who were practically their neighbors. Wells, a true champion of principle, told the organizers that her chapter would not walk. The parade went on as planned, but if you thought Ida B. Badass Wells was done, think again. Once the parade began, Ida marched to the front, hopped the barricade, and marched with the white delegation from Illinois.

***

Happy birthday, Ida B. Wells. Thank you for everything.

The post To celebrate Ida B. Wells on her birthday, here are five powerful stories you haven't heard appeared first on HelloGiggles.

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To celebrate Ida B. Wells on her birthday, here are five powerful stories you haven't heard

To celebrate Ida B. Wells on her birthday, here are five powerful stories you haven't heard

On July 16th, we commemorate the birthday of Ida B. Wells (1862-1931), a true champion of the people - the founder of the National Association of Colored Women and a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Wells was known for being a radical anti-lynching journalist, but that only describes one part of her extraordinary life. To celebrate her, I'm here to tell you five true stories about Wells's life that prove there was more to this legendary woman than you may have heard before.

1. She defended herself against a racist train conductor, and then she sued him.

When Ida B. Wells was 20 years old, she bought a first-class train ticket going from Memphis, Tennessee to Woodstock, where she had a job as a teacher. When the train conductor came through the car to punch tickets, he politely informed the young Wells that she was in the wrong car and needed to move, and until she did, he could not accept her ticket. Ida insisted that she knew exactly what car she was in, and it was not the wrong one. The exchange that followed is best retold by Ida herself. Court documents quote her as saying,  “He said to me that he would treat me like a lady, but that I must go into the other car, and I replied, that if he wished to treat me like a lady, he would leave me alone.”

The shadiness of this exchange was not warning enough for the conductor. Later, Wells wrote in her autobiography, “[The conductor] tried to drag me out of the seat, but the moment he caught hold of my arm I fastened my teeth in the back of his hand.”

Just to recap: When a racist train conductor put his hands on a 20-year-old Ida B Wells and demanded she move to the colored car, she not only refused - she fought back when he attempted to physically remove her.

This story of self-defense would be amazing on its own if it ended here, but Ida was never one to leave well enough alone. When she got back to Memphis, she found an attorney and sued the railroad company for $500 (the equivalent of about $11,000 in 2015)  AND. SHE. WON. The railroad company was ordered to pay Wells $500, but the verdict was later appealed and overturned in the Tennessee Supreme Court because haters gon' hate.

Ida B. Wells was born in slavery on July 16, 1862 in Mississippi. Prominent journalist, educator, Civil Rights Movement leader, and founder of the National Association of Colored Women. She became a leading anti-lynching activist. Love this picture of her! #slaveryarchive #OTD pic.twitter.com/NlBGoquEAT

- Dr. Ana Lucia Araujo (@analuciaraujo_) July 16, 2018

2. She was fired for calling out her racist bosses.

For context, Ida was riding the Southwestern Railroad Company train that day to get to her job as a teacher at a school for African-American children. The eventual lawsuit generated so much public interest that Ida wrote about it in a weekly publication for Black Christians known as The Living Way - a move that kick-started her writing career. The young educator used her new platform to call out Memphis establishments that supported segregation. Separate but equal policies weren't working, and Ida was not ashamed to say it.

By the age of 28, Ida had found her editorial voice and was writing under the pen name Iola. She was the co-editor of a popular Black-owned newspaper in Memphis called the Free Speech and Headlight, and as an educator, she used this platform to argue that the quality of education offered to Black students was sub-par compared to the education offered to their white counterparts. Her editorial coverage was so inflammatory that the Memphis School Board of Education fired her. Not one to be deterred, Wells chucked up the deuces and transitioned into writing full time, becoming the anti-lynching legend we know today.

"I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a trap.” Pioneering journalist and anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells was born this day in 1862. pic.twitter.com/W4rogJyuU8

- Jacobin (@jacobinmag) July 16, 2018

3. She is one of the founders of the NAACP.

Most people assume that the founding members of the NAACP were a bunch of old Black and Jewish men sitting in a room, discussing racial inequality. This is mostly true. It was a bit of a boys club, but there were also a few women at the first National Afro American Council meeting. This organization would eventually become the NAACP - one of these women was none other than Ida “B. is for Badass” Wells.

That's right. Ida B. Wells is one of the founding members of the NAACP. Despite her presence at that first conference, she wasn't elected one of the founding officers - though one of the other women in attendance made the cut.  There were concerns that Ida's views on lynching were too radical at the time, even though the NAACP was formed in direct response to a lynching that had occurred in Illinois.  

Wells stayed with the organization long enough to be part of the transition from the National Afro-American Council to the NAACP, but she soon butted heads with some of the officers and left. She felt that the boys club didn't have enough action-based initiatives, and she shifted her attention to a cause more known for kicking ass and taking names: women's' suffrage.

"The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press." Ida B. Wells, born on this day in 1862 pic.twitter.com/ulqAzoNcFv

- Ray E. Boomhower (@RayBoomhower) July 16, 2018

4. She had (justified) beef with white feminists of her time.

Wells was one of the most important African-American suffragettes - but she also had quite a few run-ins with white feminists.  Thank God we don't have those kinds of problems anymore (just kidding).

In the early 1900s, she found allies in women like Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Frances Willard. At first, their cause seemed to transcended racism. Then, when the 15th amendment was passed, giving Black men the right to vote - not women - shit hit the fan. Wells sympathized with Black men who were lynched for exercising their new right to vote. Her colleagues, on the other hand, focused their attention on the misogynist political slight - conveniently glazing over the violence inflicted on these men. But Willard felt that, in order to push the Suffrage movement forward, suffragists had to grow their ranks. She encouraged Southern women to join their cause and appealed to them the best way she knew how: by slandering Black people.

Justifiably, Wells and other Black suffragettes took offense when Willard said in an 1890 interview with the New York Voice, “'Better whiskey and more of it' is the rallying cry of great, dark-faced mobs. The safety of [white] women, of childhood, of the home, is menaced in a thousand localities.” She also implied that Black people were drunks who “multiplied like the locusts of Egypt.” Susan B. Anthony herself said, “I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman,” seemingly forgetting that there were women in the world who also happened to be Black.  

Wells, realizing that her allies were as dependable as a wet rag, took her plight overseas. She spoke to British audiences about what an immense problem lynching was for Blacks in the American South. European audiences couldn't believe that white American suffragists didn't speak out against these crimes and gave Willard an opportunity to defend herself in a live debate with Wells in 1894. Ida, not one to be bested, came with receipts and pulled out a copy of the 1890 New York Voice interview at the debate. Game. Set. Match.

Happy Birthday to Ida B. Wells! She paved the way for women of color to gain the right to vote! Find out more here: https://t.co/vcN8hmLqr5 #IdaBWells pic.twitter.com/w1bHU2smX2

- AAUW (@AAUW) July 16, 2018

5. Nobody puts Ida in a corner.

Speaking of racist pseudo-allies, after her beef with Willard and Anthony came to a head, Wells threw her full support of women's suffrage into her local Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago, where she lived at the time. After catching wind of a suffrage parade in 1913, Wells brought her delegation all the way from Chicago to Washington D.C. to march in solidarity.

When they arrived, the organizers of the parade told Ida and her cohorts to march in the back of the parade because, well, racism. When Ida and the Alpha Suffrage Club protested, they were told to walk in the back or not at all. They asked the Illinois Suffrage Club to back them up, but found no support from women who were practically their neighbors. Wells, a true champion of principle, told the organizers that her chapter would not walk. The parade went on as planned, but if you thought Ida B. Badass Wells was done, think again. Once the parade began, Ida marched to the front, hopped the barricade, and marched with the white delegation from Illinois.

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Happy birthday, Ida B. Wells. Thank you for everything.

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To celebrate Ida B. Wells on her birthday, here are five powerful stories you haven't heard

To celebrate Ida B. Wells on her birthday, here are five powerful stories you haven't heard

On July 16th, we commemorate the birthday of Ida B. Wells (1862-1931), a true champion of the people - the founder of the National Association of Colored Women and a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Wells was known for being a radical anti-lynching journalist, but that only describes one part of her extraordinary life. To celebrate her, I'm here to tell you five true stories about Wells's life that prove there was more to this legendary woman than you may have heard before.

1. She defended herself against a racist train conductor, and then she sued him.

When Ida B. Wells was 20 years old, she bought a first-class train ticket going from Memphis, Tennessee to Woodstock, where she had a job as a teacher. When the train conductor came through the car to punch tickets, he politely informed the young Wells that she was in the wrong car and needed to move, and until she did, he could not accept her ticket. Ida insisted that she knew exactly what car she was in, and it was not the wrong one. The exchange that followed is best retold by Ida herself. Court documents quote her as saying,  “He said to me that he would treat me like a lady, but that I must go into the other car, and I replied, that if he wished to treat me like a lady, he would leave me alone.”

The shadiness of this exchange was not warning enough for the conductor. Later, Wells wrote in her autobiography, “[The conductor] tried to drag me out of the seat, but the moment he caught hold of my arm I fastened my teeth in the back of his hand.”

Just to recap: When a racist train conductor put his hands on a 20-year-old Ida B Wells and demanded she move to the colored car, she not only refused - she fought back when he attempted to physically remove her.

This story of self-defense would be amazing on its own if it ended here, but Ida was never one to leave well enough alone. When she got back to Memphis, she found an attorney and sued the railroad company for $500 (the equivalent of about $11,000 in 2015)  AND. SHE. WON. The railroad company was ordered to pay Wells $500, but the verdict was later appealed and overturned in the Tennessee Supreme Court because haters gon' hate.

Ida B. Wells was born in slavery on July 16, 1862 in Mississippi. Prominent journalist, educator, Civil Rights Movement leader, and founder of the National Association of Colored Women. She became a leading anti-lynching activist. Love this picture of her! #slaveryarchive #OTD pic.twitter.com/NlBGoquEAT

- Dr. Ana Lucia Araujo (@analuciaraujo_) July 16, 2018

2. She was fired for calling out her racist bosses.

For context, Ida was riding the Southwestern Railroad Company train that day to get to her job as a teacher at a school for African-American children. The eventual lawsuit generated so much public interest that Ida wrote about it in a weekly publication for Black Christians known as The Living Way - a move that kick-started her writing career. The young educator used her new platform to call out Memphis establishments that supported segregation. Separate but equal policies weren't working, and Ida was not ashamed to say it.

By the age of 28, Ida had found her editorial voice and was writing under the pen name Iola. She was the co-editor of a popular Black-owned newspaper in Memphis called the Free Speech and Headlight, and as an educator, she used this platform to argue that the quality of education offered to Black students was sub-par compared to the education offered to their white counterparts. Her editorial coverage was so inflammatory that the Memphis School Board of Education fired her. Not one to be deterred, Wells chucked up the deuces and transitioned into writing full time, becoming the anti-lynching legend we know today.

"I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a trap.” Pioneering journalist and anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells was born this day in 1862. pic.twitter.com/W4rogJyuU8

- Jacobin (@jacobinmag) July 16, 2018

3. She is one of the founders of the NAACP.

Most people assume that the founding members of the NAACP were a bunch of old Black and Jewish men sitting in a room, discussing racial inequality. This is mostly true. It was a bit of a boys club, but there were also a few women at the first National Afro American Council meeting. This organization would eventually become the NAACP - one of these women was none other than Ida “B. is for Badass” Wells.

That's right. Ida B. Wells is one of the founding members of the NAACP. Despite her presence at that first conference, she wasn't elected one of the founding officers - though one of the other women in attendance made the cut.  There were concerns that Ida's views on lynching were too radical at the time, even though the NAACP was formed in direct response to a lynching that had occurred in Illinois.  

Wells stayed with the organization long enough to be part of the transition from the National Afro-American Council to the NAACP, but she soon butted heads with some of the officers and left. She felt that the boys club didn't have enough action-based initiatives, and she shifted her attention to a cause more known for kicking ass and taking names: women's' suffrage.

"The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press." Ida B. Wells, born on this day in 1862 pic.twitter.com/ulqAzoNcFv

- Ray E. Boomhower (@RayBoomhower) July 16, 2018

4. She had (justified) beef with white feminists of her time.

Wells was one of the most important African-American suffragettes - but she also had quite a few run-ins with white feminists.  Thank God we don't have those kinds of problems anymore (just kidding).

In the early 1900s, she found allies in women like Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Frances Willard. At first, their cause seemed to transcended racism. Then, when the 15th amendment was passed, giving Black men the right to vote - not women - shit hit the fan. Wells sympathized with Black men who were lynched for exercising their new right to vote. Her colleagues, on the other hand, focused their attention on the misogynist political slight - conveniently glazing over the violence inflicted on these men. But Willard felt that, in order to push the Suffrage movement forward, suffragists had to grow their ranks. She encouraged Southern women to join their cause and appealed to them the best way she knew how: by slandering Black people.

Justifiably, Wells and other Black suffragettes took offense when Willard said in an 1890 interview with the New York Voice, “'Better whiskey and more of it' is the rallying cry of great, dark-faced mobs. The safety of [white] women, of childhood, of the home, is menaced in a thousand localities.” She also implied that Black people were drunks who “multiplied like the locusts of Egypt.” Susan B. Anthony herself said, “I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman,” seemingly forgetting that there were women in the world who also happened to be Black.  

Wells, realizing that her allies were as dependable as a wet rag, took her plight overseas. She spoke to British audiences about what an immense problem lynching was for Blacks in the American South. European audiences couldn't believe that white American suffragists didn't speak out against these crimes and gave Willard an opportunity to defend herself in a live debate with Wells in 1894. Ida, not one to be bested, came with receipts and pulled out a copy of the 1890 New York Voice interview at the debate. Game. Set. Match.

Happy Birthday to Ida B. Wells! She paved the way for women of color to gain the right to vote! Find out more here: https://t.co/vcN8hmLqr5 #IdaBWells pic.twitter.com/w1bHU2smX2

- AAUW (@AAUW) July 16, 2018

5. Nobody puts Ida in a corner.

Speaking of racist pseudo-allies, after her beef with Willard and Anthony came to a head, Wells threw her full support of women's suffrage into her local Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago, where she lived at the time. After catching wind of a suffrage parade in 1913, Wells brought her delegation all the way from Chicago to Washington D.C. to march in solidarity.

When they arrived, the organizers of the parade told Ida and her cohorts to march in the back of the parade because, well, racism. When Ida and the Alpha Suffrage Club protested, they were told to walk in the back or not at all. They asked the Illinois Suffrage Club to back them up, but found no support from women who were practically their neighbors. Wells, a true champion of principle, told the organizers that her chapter would not walk. The parade went on as planned, but if you thought Ida B. Badass Wells was done, think again. Once the parade began, Ida marched to the front, hopped the barricade, and marched with the white delegation from Illinois.

***

Happy birthday, Ida B. Wells. Thank you for everything.

The post To celebrate Ida B. Wells on her birthday, here are five powerful stories you haven't heard appeared first on HelloGiggles.

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To celebrate Ida B. Wells on her birthday, here are five powerful stories you haven't heard

To celebrate Ida B. Wells on her birthday, here are five powerful stories you haven't heard

On July 16th, we commemorate the birthday of Ida B. Wells (1862-1931), a true champion of the people - the founder of the National Association of Colored Women and a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Wells was known for being a radical anti-lynching journalist, but that only describes one part of her extraordinary life. To celebrate her, I'm here to tell you five true stories about Wells's life that prove there was more to this legendary woman than you may have heard before.

1. She defended herself against a racist train conductor, and then she sued him.

When Ida B. Wells was 20 years old, she bought a first-class train ticket going from Memphis, Tennessee to Woodstock, where she had a job as a teacher. When the train conductor came through the car to punch tickets, he politely informed the young Wells that she was in the wrong car and needed to move, and until she did, he could not accept her ticket. Ida insisted that she knew exactly what car she was in, and it was not the wrong one. The exchange that followed is best retold by Ida herself. Court documents quote her as saying,  “He said to me that he would treat me like a lady, but that I must go into the other car, and I replied, that if he wished to treat me like a lady, he would leave me alone.”

The shadiness of this exchange was not warning enough for the conductor. Later, Wells wrote in her autobiography, “[The conductor] tried to drag me out of the seat, but the moment he caught hold of my arm I fastened my teeth in the back of his hand.”

Just to recap: When a racist train conductor put his hands on a 20-year-old Ida B Wells and demanded she move to the colored car, she not only refused - she fought back when he attempted to physically remove her.

This story of self-defense would be amazing on its own if it ended here, but Ida was never one to leave well enough alone. When she got back to Memphis, she found an attorney and sued the railroad company for $500 (the equivalent of about $11,000 in 2015)  AND. SHE. WON. The railroad company was ordered to pay Wells $500, but the verdict was later appealed and overturned in the Tennessee Supreme Court because haters gon' hate.

Ida B. Wells was born in slavery on July 16, 1862 in Mississippi. Prominent journalist, educator, Civil Rights Movement leader, and founder of the National Association of Colored Women. She became a leading anti-lynching activist. Love this picture of her! #slaveryarchive #OTD pic.twitter.com/NlBGoquEAT

- Dr. Ana Lucia Araujo (@analuciaraujo_) July 16, 2018

2. She was fired for calling out her racist bosses.

For context, Ida was riding the Southwestern Railroad Company train that day to get to her job as a teacher at a school for African-American children. The eventual lawsuit generated so much public interest that Ida wrote about it in a weekly publication for Black Christians known as The Living Way - a move that kick-started her writing career. The young educator used her new platform to call out Memphis establishments that supported segregation. Separate but equal policies weren't working, and Ida was not ashamed to say it.

By the age of 28, Ida had found her editorial voice and was writing under the pen name Iola. She was the co-editor of a popular Black-owned newspaper in Memphis called the Free Speech and Headlight, and as an educator, she used this platform to argue that the quality of education offered to Black students was sub-par compared to the education offered to their white counterparts. Her editorial coverage was so inflammatory that the Memphis School Board of Education fired her. Not one to be deterred, Wells chucked up the deuces and transitioned into writing full time, becoming the anti-lynching legend we know today.

"I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a trap.” Pioneering journalist and anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells was born this day in 1862. pic.twitter.com/W4rogJyuU8

- Jacobin (@jacobinmag) July 16, 2018

3. She is one of the founders of the NAACP.

Most people assume that the founding members of the NAACP were a bunch of old Black and Jewish men sitting in a room, discussing racial inequality. This is mostly true. It was a bit of a boys club, but there were also a few women at the first National Afro American Council meeting. This organization would eventually become the NAACP - one of these women was none other than Ida “B. is for Badass” Wells.

That's right. Ida B. Wells is one of the founding members of the NAACP. Despite her presence at that first conference, she wasn't elected one of the founding officers - though one of the other women in attendance made the cut.  There were concerns that Ida's views on lynching were too radical at the time, even though the NAACP was formed in direct response to a lynching that had occurred in Illinois.  

Wells stayed with the organization long enough to be part of the transition from the National Afro-American Council to the NAACP, but she soon butted heads with some of the officers and left. She felt that the boys club didn't have enough action-based initiatives, and she shifted her attention to a cause more known for kicking ass and taking names: women's' suffrage.

"The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press." Ida B. Wells, born on this day in 1862 pic.twitter.com/ulqAzoNcFv

- Ray E. Boomhower (@RayBoomhower) July 16, 2018

4. She had (justified) beef with white feminists of her time.

Wells was one of the most important African-American suffragettes - but she also had quite a few run-ins with white feminists.  Thank God we don't have those kinds of problems anymore (just kidding).

In the early 1900s, she found allies in women like Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Frances Willard. At first, their cause seemed to transcended racism. Then, when the 15th amendment was passed, giving Black men the right to vote - not women - shit hit the fan. Wells sympathized with Black men who were lynched for exercising their new right to vote. Her colleagues, on the other hand, focused their attention on the misogynist political slight - conveniently glazing over the violence inflicted on these men. But Willard felt that, in order to push the Suffrage movement forward, suffragists had to grow their ranks. She encouraged Southern women to join their cause and appealed to them the best way she knew how: by slandering Black people.

Justifiably, Wells and other Black suffragettes took offense when Willard said in an 1890 interview with the New York Voice, “'Better whiskey and more of it' is the rallying cry of great, dark-faced mobs. The safety of [white] women, of childhood, of the home, is menaced in a thousand localities.” She also implied that Black people were drunks who “multiplied like the locusts of Egypt.” Susan B. Anthony herself said, “I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman,” seemingly forgetting that there were women in the world who also happened to be Black.  

Wells, realizing that her allies were as dependable as a wet rag, took her plight overseas. She spoke to British audiences about what an immense problem lynching was for Blacks in the American South. European audiences couldn't believe that white American suffragists didn't speak out against these crimes and gave Willard an opportunity to defend herself in a live debate with Wells in 1894. Ida, not one to be bested, came with receipts and pulled out a copy of the 1890 New York Voice interview at the debate. Game. Set. Match.

Happy Birthday to Ida B. Wells! She paved the way for women of color to gain the right to vote! Find out more here: https://t.co/vcN8hmLqr5 #IdaBWells pic.twitter.com/w1bHU2smX2

- AAUW (@AAUW) July 16, 2018

5. Nobody puts Ida in a corner.

Speaking of racist pseudo-allies, after her beef with Willard and Anthony came to a head, Wells threw her full support of women's suffrage into her local Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago, where she lived at the time. After catching wind of a suffrage parade in 1913, Wells brought her delegation all the way from Chicago to Washington D.C. to march in solidarity.

When they arrived, the organizers of the parade told Ida and her cohorts to march in the back of the parade because, well, racism. When Ida and the Alpha Suffrage Club protested, they were told to walk in the back or not at all. They asked the Illinois Suffrage Club to back them up, but found no support from women who were practically their neighbors. Wells, a true champion of principle, told the organizers that her chapter would not walk. The parade went on as planned, but if you thought Ida B. Badass Wells was done, think again. Once the parade began, Ida marched to the front, hopped the barricade, and marched with the white delegation from Illinois.

***

Happy birthday, Ida B. Wells. Thank you for everything.

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