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THE DOUGLASS WELLS PROJECT

A pro-democracy advocacy Group
Formed By

C.B. Productions

"Power concedes nothing without a demand,
It never did and it never will.
Our destiny is largely in our hands."

Frederick Douglass

"The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press."

Ida B. Wells

OUR MISSION

The Douglass Wells Project, a pro-democracy advocacy group formed by C. B. Productions, fights for the basic rights of people of color. Built upon the guiding principles and accomplishments of two luminary civil rights activists, Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells, the project has undertaken the following mission:

    • To hold elected officials accountable for policy decisions that significantly affect the lives of citizens of color
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    • To inform people of color on issues that shape outcomes in their lives in areas such as the arts, economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, and religion
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    • To recognize, acknowledge, and pay tribute to people of color, living or dead, who made significant contributions and gave their lives in service to society
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OUR VISION

"I'm not going to die; I'm going home like a shooting star."

Sojourner Truth

Our goal is to embrace Sojourner’s strength and character to achieve our vision, and we will do so by:

    • Advocating for the values of people of color
    • Telling counter narratives to sources that do not have the interest and needs of people of color in mind
    • Informing people to stand up and speak out for voting rights
    • Speaking truth to power

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HISTORICAL CONNECTIONS

The Life of Frederick Douglass

Reconstruction: The Vote

Ida B. Wells and the Long Crusade to Outlaw Lynching

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“Power concedes nothing without a demand, it never did and it never will.”

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

“Our destiny is largely in our hand.”

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

“I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

“I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.”

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

“Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.”

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

“No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.”

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

“The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.”

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

“What to a slave is the Fourth of July?”

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

“People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.”

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

“A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.”

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

“To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.”

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

“I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.”

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

“One and God make a majority.”

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

“The soul that is within me no man can degrade.”

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

“A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.”

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

“American is false to the pause, false to the present and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.”

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

“I prefer to be true to myself even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

“The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.”

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

“We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.”

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

“The way to right wrongs is turn the light of truth upon them.”

IDA B. WELLS

“The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.”

IDA B. WELLS

“The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the negro as Amen, but every place is open to him as a servant.”

IDA B. WELLS

“Virtue knows no color line”.

IDA B. WELLS

“The appetite grows for what it feeds on.”

IDA B. WELLS

“I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, help way, so I wrote in a plain, common sense way on the things that concerned our people.”

IDA B. WELLS

“The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.”

IDA B. WELLS

“The Afro-American is the backbone of the south.”

IDA B. WELLS

“Those commit the murders write the reports.”

IDA B. WELLS

“The mob spirts has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro Americans.”

IDA B. WELLS

“The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.”

IDA B. WELLS

“Lynching is color-line murder.”

IDA B. WELLS

“The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirt of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.”

IDA B. WELLS

“There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.”

IDA B. WELLS

“I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish it makes its way.”

IDA B. WELLS

“The white man’s dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.”

IDA B. WELLS

“It is extremely rough to follow through with my goals, but I felt a responsibility to show the world what the African Americans are facing through the rough patch.”

IDA B. WELLS

“I’d rather go down in history as one lone negro who dared to tell the government that it had done dastardly than to save my skin by taking back what I said.”

IDA B. WELLS

The Women's Suffrage Parade On March 4,1913.

The National Woman Suffrage Parade, 1913
Ida B. Wells Joined The Parade

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There is no time for complacency.

There is no time for living room activism. Every day must be spent asking ourselves if we’re doing our part, if we’re doing enough to ensure that the grand idea called America continues.

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