“The images and quotations from her bring you right to who she was,” Hunt said to ABC 7 Chicago. Commissioned by the Ida B. Wells Commemorative Committee, the sculpture was installed in early June where the Chicago Housing Authority’s Ida B. Wells Housing Project once stood. After several years of fundraising, they reached their goal of the $300,000 needed for the statue. It’s the first artwork in the city that honors a Black woman. Wells was an educator, investigative journalist and a civil rights activist who fought against segregation and lynching. She was born into slavery in Mississippi but was later freed due to the Emancipation Proclamation at the time […]
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