Entries tagged with “Ida B. Wells”

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Race

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Mar 31, 2022

More Than a Century After it Was First Proposed, President Biden Signs Historic Law Making Lynching a Federal Crime

After more than a century of efforts by civil rights leaders to make lynching a federal crime, President Joe Biden on March 29, 2022 signed into law historic anti-lynching…

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Innocence

Intellectual Disability

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Jul 19, 2021

Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Descendants of Ida B. Wells Call for Freedom for Pervis Payne

As the first court hearing on Pervis Payne’s claim that his death sentence must be vacated because of his intellectual disability was about to get underway, prominent civil rights leaders and relatives of a civil rights icon added their voices to efforts to free the Tennessee death-row prisoner, who has consistently asserted his…