Activist and writer Ida B. Wells-Barnett first became prominent in the 1890s because she brought international attention to the lynching of African Americans in the South. Wells was born a slave in Holly Springs, Mississippi, in 1862. At the age of sixteen, she became primary caregiver to her six brothers and sisters, when both of her parents succumbed to yellow fever. After completing her studies at Rust College, where her father had sat on the board of trustees before his death, Wells divided her time between caring for her siblings and teaching school. She moved to Memphis, Tennessee in the 1880s.
Wells first began protesting the treatment of black Southerners on a train ride between Memphis and her job at a rural school; the conductor told her that she must move to the train’s smoking car. Wells refused, arguing that she had purchased a first-class ticket. The conductor and other passengers then physically removed her from the train. Wells returned to Memphis, hired a lawyer, and sued the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company. The court decided in her favor, awarding Wells $500. The railroad company appealed, and in 1887, the Supreme Court of Tennessee reversed the previous decision and ordered Wells to pay court fees. Using the pseudonym “Iola,” Wells began to write editorials in black newspapers that challenged Jim Crow laws in the South. She bought a share of a Memphis newspaper, the Free Speech and Headlight, and used it to further the cause of African American civil rights.
After the lynching of three of her friends in 1892, Wells became one of the nation’s most vocal anti-lynching activists. Calvin McDowell, Thomas Moss, and Henry Stewart owned the People’s Grocery in Memphis, but their economic success angered the white owners of a store across the street. On March 9, a group of white men gathered to confront McDowell, Moss, and Stewart. During the ensuing scuffle, several of the white men received injuries, and authorities arrested the three black business owners. A white mob subsequently broke into the jail, captured McDowell, Moss, and Stewart, and lynched them.
Incensed by the murder of her friends, Wells launched an extensive investigation of lynching. In 1892, she published a pamphlet, “Southern Horrors,” which detailed her findings. Through her lectures and books such as A Red Record (1895), Wells countered the “rape myth” used by lynch mobs to justify the murder of African Americans. Through her research she found that lynch victims had challenged white authority or had successfully competed with whites in business or politics. As a result of her outspokenness, a mob destroyed the offices of the Free Speech and threatened to kill Wells. She fled Memphis determined to continue her campaign to raise awareness of southern lynching. Wells took her movement to England, and established the British Anti-Lynching Society in 1894. She returned to the U.S. and settled in Chicago, Illinois, where she married attorney and newspaper editor Ferdinand L. Barnett in 1895.
Wells-Barnett also worked to advance other political causes. She protested the exclusion of African Americans from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and three years later, she helped launch the National Association of Colored Women (NACW). In 1909, Wells was a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Wells was also active in the women's suffrage movement, however her unrelenting advocacy for racial justice clashed with contemporary, predominantly white suffrage organizations.
Ida Wells-Barnett died in Chicago in 1931 at the age of 69.
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Me in real life: "I have morals and empathy"
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africa do be having rubber
although now you can do shenanigans with investment, i need to try moral run (probably will get big mad when commies expropriate my industries)
Civ is pretty much imperialism the game, so it makes sense we become the barbarians as we play. On barbarians, it's always made me cringe how these guys are just evil assholes you gotta kill and that's all there is to it.
I'll always choose communism when I get to ideologies though, that makes me feel based as I sit upon my throne in a higher dimension while i dictate the lives of everyone in my civ
The Minecraft mod Tinker's Construct offers this choice. The mod's purpose is a smeltery, which one uses to pour molten metal into casts to make tool parts. It's a lot of fun. It's not like other tech mods that are major time sinks. Smeltery bricks are just sand, gravel, and clay - then fire the smeltery bricks in a regular furnace. And the smeltery is fueled by regular lava. Easy to get into, lots of tool customizing possible, not a time sink at all.
But if mobs are pushed into the smeltery and there's molten metal in it, it will melt those mobs down. Most mobs will give liquid blood. Horses give glue. But villagers? They give you molten emerald which you can pour into a cast to get a regular vanilla emerald. And it can be automated.
So you have a choice. Be moral, or build a villager breeding setup that conveyor-belts villagers into free unlimited emeralds.
Minecraft has a lot of mob enslavement stuff even in vanilla which I doubt was intentional?
It works by manipulating various spawn rules. Like at one point each block had a light level between 1 and 14. If the light was seven or below that block could spawn monsters. So you create a box that's dark inside, put some traps at the bottom, and it will continually spawn monsters and kill them. Then you can use some water to sweep all the drops to a collection ppoint. It's one of a great many fairly complex machines that were built entirely within the game rules.
Yeah I know =) back in my day we just stuck torches all over monster spawners, lol. Seen the spawner -> death -> water sweep trick before, wild stuff.