(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — During this year’s Black History Month, WBBM is partnering with the DuSable Black History Museum to put a spotlight on Chicago’s rich Black history.
We all know Ida B. Wells Drive downtown, named for the Chicago journalist, activist, and researcher in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Wells' memory is also being preserved with a new coin issued by the U.S. Mint, and she's remembered at the DuSable Black History Museum.
“This is a desk that belonged to Ida B. Wells. We're so excited to have this,” said Dr. Kim L. Dulaney is vice president of education and programs at the museum.
“She did a lot of things to build institutions and organizations right here in Chicago, and she definitely made her mark.”
Perry Diggs, the DuSable Museum's education program associate, said Wells tried to make her mark at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, but there was no space for black people.
“We had one in 1940, you know, here in Chicago, celebrate Negro History Week. We had one almost for those same things because in these festivals, we weren't represented.
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