Montclair Women’s Club Event: ‘The Life Of Ida B. Wells’

MONTCLAIR, NJ — The following news release comes courtesy of the Montclair Women’s Club. Find out how to post announcements or events to your local Patch site.

The Montclair Women’s Club will celebrate Women’s History Month with an insightful presentation by Wendy Jones on The Life of Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) from 1:30 to 4 p.m. on Friday, March 22.

Wendy Jones - an avid history lover since the age of 12, author of An Extraordinary Life: Josephine E. Jones, and president of Ida Bell Publishing - will introduce us to the extraordinary Ida B. Wells.

Ida B. Wells, blazing through the 19th and 20th centuries, was a well-known African American anti-lynching crusader, an investigative journalist, a newspaper owner, and a suffragette. In 1910 Wells - by this time Wells-Barnett and mother of four - also established the Negro Fellowship League in Chicago to provide lodging, a library, and employment information for young African American men from the South, who were barred from those services at the YMCA.

Wells famously said, ''Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.'' Another of her most famous quotes is: ''I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a trap.”

Attendees can register here.

All programs are free for MWC members, unless otherwise indicated. A $10 donation is recommended for non-members.

MWC is located at 82 Union St. Montclair. Parking in back.

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