Downtown co-names street
after activist Ida B. Wells
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
Historians and activists gathered
in Downtown Brooklyn on Saturday
to rebrand part of Gold Street after
civil rights icon Ida B. Wells, who
took up residence on the street during
her prolifi c campaign against
lynching.
“No stop on her journey was more
important than Brooklyn,” said Dr.
Paula Giddings, who authored a biography
of Wells.
Civic leaders unveiled the offi cial
co-naming of the roadway as “Ida B.
Wells Place” — complete with newly
minted street signs at the corner of
Myrtle Avenue, and an informational
Wells’s family next to the new street sign at Gold Street and Myrtle Avenue. Photo by Corazon Aguirre
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plaque detailing her life.
Born into slavery just months
ahead of the Emancipation Proclamation,
Wells fl ed Memphis in the
1890s and took up residence in Kings
County — where she published infl uential
manifestos on lynching in the
black newspaper New York Age.
Her time on Gold Street was some
of the most formative times of Wells’
activism career, said Giddings.
“It was in Brooklyn where a seed
was sown to turn the gathering of
women here to join others across the
nation to form the fi rst black national
organization of women in the country,”
she said.
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