国立アメリカ歴史博物館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (国立アメリカ歴史博物館Instagram)「"With no sacredness of the ballot there can be no sacredness of human life itself. For if the strong can take the weak man's ballot, when it suits his purpose to do so, he will take his life also." Ida B. Wells-Barnett made this observation in her 1910 essay "How Enfranchisement Stops Lynching." Her career as an activist and organizer demonstrated how the fight to protect human lives and the fight for suffrage were intimately connected. Born in 1862 before the end of the Civil War to enslaved parents, Wells-Barnett grew up during Reconstruction in Mississippi. She witnessed firsthand the violent rise of the Jim Crow South and the systematic disenfranchisement of African Americans in the region. In the 1890s, Wells-Barnett used her skills as an educator and journalist to launch a decades-long anti-lynching campaign, forcing the nation to grapple with anti-Black mob violence and killings that had received little attention in the mainstream press. Wells-Barnett's passion for justice and reform carried over into her work a women's rights activist. In 1896, she became one of the co-founders of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW). Later, in 1913, she co-founded the Alpha Suffrage Club, which worked to organize newly enfranchised Black women in Chicago. Throughout her career, Wells-Barnett criticized white leaders of the woman suffrage movement for courting the support of Southern segregationists and ignoring the legal restrictions and threats of violence that kept African Americans from the polls—and would continue to do so even after the ratification of the #19thAmendment. Wells-Barnett's actions matched her rhetoric. During the 1913 suffrage parade in Washington, D.C., amid debates about whether Black participants would be forced to march in a segregated section, Wells-Barnett slipped into the parade and marched alongside the all-white Illinois delegation. 📷: @nationalportraitgallery #BecauseOfHerStory #19SuffrageStories #AmericanHistory #WomensHistory #BlackHistory #AfricanAmericanHistory #MississippiHistory #ChicagoHistory #FreedomStruggle #AmericanDemocracy #BeyondTheBallot」8月6日 0時17分