CHICAGO (AP) — Efforts are underway to build a monument
in Chicago to honor journalist and activist Ida B. Wells.
The Ida B. Wells Commemorative Art Committee says
it has commissioned famed sculptor Richard Hunt to create the monument. The
monument will be in Bronzeville, a historically African-American neighborhood
on Chicago's South Side. Wells lived and worked in Bronzeville with her family
from 1895 to 1931.
Wells' great-granddaughter, Michelle Duster, is
co-chairman of the monument committee. She says the goal is to have a
groundbreaking ceremony for the project sometime next year. July is the 150th
anniversary of Wells' birth.
The committee has started fundraising and needs
$300,000 for the project.
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2011 The Associated Press.
