Name: Henry Highland Garnet
Place: Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York & Liberia, Africa
Time: 1815 -1882 A.D.
After escaping
slavery with his parents and graduating from the Oneida Institute abolitionists' school, Henry Highland Garnet delivered his masterfulAddress to the Slaves of the United States at the National Convention of Colored Citizens in Buffalo, NY 1843. Mr. Garnet urged
every slave to both physically and intellectually fight their oppressor for unconditional freedom. In addition to his abolition
efforts, Henry Garnet served as the president of Avery College and the minister of Liberia, Africa.
Name: Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Place: Memphis, Tennessee & Chicago, Illinois
Time: 1862 -1931 A.D.
Mrs. Ida B. Wells-Barnett
became the protesting voice for the thousands of American citizens who were lynched. As part owner of the Memphis Free Speech
newspaper, Mrs. Wells-Barnett had direct access to an advertising vehicle to constantly lobby the government to put an end to
mob lynchng and discrimination. For her efforts, a cowardly white mob destroyed her Memphis newspaper office and threatened
to kill her if she did not drop her anti-lynching position and leave town. With a bounty over her head, she did leave Memphis, but
vehemently refused to drop her anti-lynching crusade. She continued to expose lynching as a simple terrorist tactic and identified
the hypocrisy of the government for allowing lynching to continue in public speeches and published articles for years on in.
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