If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Ida B. Wells is the 16th woman recognized on the US quarter. (image by and courtesy the US Mint) A pioneering ...

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More than $1 billion would modernize Ida B Wells, Jefferson and Cleveland high schools. Another $5 million would go towards physical, educational, and technology improvements at other schools.

A big chunk of that money would go to refurbishing the last of the district’s two large comprehensive high schools, Cleveland in Southeast Portland and Ida B. Wells in Southwest Portland ...

[Photo: US Mint] The final class of new quarters includes Ida B. Wells, a Black woman born into slavery in Mississippi during the middle of the Civil War who went on to work in journalism ...

Portrait of Ida B. Wells in 1893 by Sallie E. Garrity. Image courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. My great-grandmother, Ida B. Wells, was a very brave woman who ...

Ida B. Wells is now on the back of the quarter. Freshly minted and released into circulation on Jan 2, 2025. Read more on ...