Ida B. Wells-Barnett, wearing "Martyred Negro Soldiers" button, circa 1917-1919

1917/1919

Webb Studio

Ida B. Wells-Barnett, activist, journalist, teacher, and anti-lynching leader. She is pictured wearing a button she created to publicize a memorial service for African American combatants court-martialed and hanged in Houston, Texas in the summer of 1917. The button's text reads "In Memoriam Martyred Negro Soldiers Dec. 11, 1917.

Item details

Title: Ida B. Wells-Barnett, wearing "Martyred Negro Soldiers" button, circa 1917-1919
Creator: Webb Studio
Date created: 1917/1919

Description: Ida B. Wells-Barnett, activist, journalist, teacher, and anti-lynching leader. She is pictured wearing a button she created to publicize a memorial service for African American combatants court-martialed and hanged in Houston, Texas in the summer of 1917. The button's text reads "In Memoriam Martyred Negro Soldiers Dec. 11, 1917.
Subject:
Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931
African American soldiers
African American women civil rights workers
Type: Image
Format: Photographic prints
Spatial: Chicago, Illinois

URL: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/scrc/md/ibwells-0010-002-12
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Publisher: University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center