Ida B. Wells’s life has intriguing ties to Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, President William McKinley, Booker T. Washington, Duke of Argyll and Sir John Gorst. She was a journalist who wrote about human rights and had a clear understanding about her rights as a woman. This presentation highlights her fearless campaign to realize the most significant contribution to the investigation and avocation against human lynchings. Yet, she is unknown to most people of this generation.
Speakers Expertise:
Dr. C. Sade Turnipseed is an internationally respected public historian whose work centers the Mississippi Delta as America’s original Cotton Kingdom and a foundational site of African American history, culture, and resistance. Named Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning Educator of the Year, she is widely recognized for translating rigorous scholarship into accessible public humanities programming.
Dr. Turnipseed’s research explores Black labor, freedom-making traditions, music, memory, and civic courage. She is the author of
LIL B: and His Tale of Survival and
Field Hollers and Freedom Songs, and serves as Executive Director of Khafre, Inc., a Mississippi Delta–based nonprofit dedicated to establishing a national monument honoring the Cotton Pickers of the American South.
Her lectures invite audiences to engage Mississippi history through inclusive storytelling, truth-telling, and shared reflection.
