Ida B. Wells - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

After this woman published one of her newspaper editorials, white mobs destroyed her press and forced her into exile. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this woman who began to campaign against lynching after the 1892 murder of her friends and later published Southern Horrors.

ANSWER: Ida B. Wells [or Ida Wells-Barnett]

[10e] Wells chronicled the high rates of lynching in this city, where she led its Free Speech and Headlight newspaper. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot by James Earl Ray in this city.

ANSWER: Memphis

[10h] The photograph that inspired “Strange Fruit” was taken in this Indiana town, where the last confirmed lynching north of the Mason–Dixon Line occurred in 1930.

ANSWER: Marion, Indiana

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California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	10	12.00	70%	50%	0%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	20.00	100%	75%	25%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	11	10.00	91%	9%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	7	18.57	100%	86%	0%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%

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Stanford B	Berkeley A	0	10	0	10
Berkeley C	Berkeley B	10	10	0	20
Stanford A	Berkeley D	10	10	0	20
UCLA A	UCLA B	10	10	0	20
Arizona State	UCSD A	0	10	0	10
UCSD B	UC Santa Barbara	10	10	0	20
Brock	Simon Fraser	10	0	0	10
UBC B	Guelph	10	10	0	20
McGill A	Carleton University	0	10	0	10
Toronto G	McGill B	0	10	0	10
McMaster A	Ottawa	10	0	0	10
Waterloo A	Toronto B	10	10	0	20
Toronto E	Waterloo B	10	10	0	20
Toronto Metropolitan	McMaster B	0	10	0	10
UBC A	Queen's	0	0	0	0
Western C	Toronto C	0	10	0	10
Central Florida A	Central Florida B	0	10	0	10
Central Florida C	Florida A	0	10	0	10
Florida B	Florida C	0	10	0	10
CWRU A	Michigan C	10	10	0	20
Michigan State	CWRU B	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Ohio State A	10	10	0	20
Michigan B	Pittsburgh	10	10	0	20
Chicago A	Northwestern B	10	10	0	20
Chicago B	Indiana C	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame A	Chicago C	0	10	0	10
Purdue A	Chicago D	0	10	10	20
Illinois B	Notre Dame B	10	10	0	20
Indiana A	Indiana B	10	10	10	30
Illinois A	Northwestern D	10	10	0	20
Washington A	Carleton College	10	10	0	20
Claremont	Washington B	10	10	0	20
Minnesota A	Iowa State	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech A	Missouri B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Bristol	0	10	0	10
Southampton B	Cambridge C	0	0	0	0
City St. George's	Cardiff	0	10	0	10
Durham	Birmingham	0	10	0	10
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LSE	Imperial B	0	10	0	10
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Manchester	Oxford A	0	10	0	10
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Murray State A	Texas A&M A	0	10	0	10
Texas A	Texas B	0	10	0	10
Alabama B	WashU B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Tennessee A	0	10	0	10
Bruin	Georgia Tech C	10	10	0	20
Louisville B	Georgia Tech D	0	10	0	10
Kentucky	Louisville A	10	10	0	20
WashU A	Alabama A	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins B	Georgetown	0	10	0	10
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Cornell A	RIT	10	10	0	20
Chicago E	Purdue B	10	10	0	20