Ida Summers Biography

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Ida Summers, better known as Vegas Vixen, earned her name for the bold cheating techniques that earned her thousands of dollars on a daily basis during the late 1960s until the early 1970s across the casinos of Las Vegas. More information on the life and adventures of Ida Summers has been provided in the paragraphs below. Lane, Self: Breaking Vegas. Travel back in time to check out the early roles of some of Hollywood's heavy hitters.

Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a prominent journalist, activist, and researcher, in the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries. In her lifetime, she battled sexism, racism, and violence. As a skilled writer, Wells-Barnett also used her skills as a journalist to shed light on the conditions of African Americans throughout the South.

Ida Bell Wells was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi on July 16^th, 1862. She was born into slavery during the Civil War. Once the war ended Wells-Barnett’s parents became politically active in Reconstruction Era politics. Her parents instilled into her the importance of education. Wells-Barnett enrolled at Rust College but was expelled when she started a dispute with the university president. In 1878, Wells-Barnett went to visit her grandmother. While she was there Wells-Barnett was informed that a yellow fever epidemic had hit her hometown. The disease took both of Wells-Barnett’s parents and her infant brother. Left to raise her brothers and sister, she took a job as a teacher so that she could keep the family together. Eventually, Wells-Barnett moved her siblings to Memphis, Tennessee. There she continued to work as an educator.

In 1884, Wells-Barnett filed a lawsuit against a train car company in Memphis for unfair treatment. She had been thrown off a first-class train, despite having a ticket. Although she won the case on the local level, the ruling was eventually overturned in federal court. After the lynching of one of her friends, Wells-Barnett turned her attention to white mob violence. She became skeptical about the reasons black men were lynched and set out to investigate several cases. She published her findings in a pamphlet and wrote several columns in local newspapers. Her expose about an 1892 lynching enraged locals, who burned her press and drove her from Memphis. After a few months, the threats became so bad she was forced to move to Chicago, Illinois.

Ida Summers Throughout the history of gambling scams, women have typically been used to cause diversions while their male accomplices carry out the actual scandal. Ida Summers was different; she certainly used her beauty and charm to distract pit bosses and dealers, but she also did the cheating herself. Ida Summers, better known as Vegas Vixen, earned her name for the bold cheating techniques that earned her thousands of dollars on a daily basis during the late 1960s until the early 1970s across the casinos of Las Vegas. More information on the life and adventures of Ida Summers has been provided in the paragraphs below. Kylie Mack from Kindergarten Field Officers Group (KFOG) receives the Ida Summers Award during the St Michael's Day service at St Michael's on Collins, Melbo.

In 1893, Wells-Barnett, joined other African American leaders in calling for the boycott of the World’s Columbian Exposition. The boycotters accused the exposition committee of locking out African Americans and negatively portraying the black community. In 1895, Wells-Barnett married famed African American lawyer Ferdinand Barnett. Together, the couple had four children. Throughout her career Wells-Barnett, balanced motherhood with her activism.

Wells-Barnett traveled internationally, shedding light on lynching to foreign audiences. Abroad, she openly confronted white women in the suffrage movement who ignored lynching. Because of her stance, she was often ridiculed and ostracized by women’s suffrage organizations in the United States. Nevertheless, Wells-Barnett remained active the women’s rights movement. She was a founder of the National Association of Colored Women’s Club which was created to address issues dealing with civil rights and women’s suffrage. Although she was in Niagara Falls for the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), her name is not mentioned as an official founder. Late in her career Wells-Barnett focused on urban reform in the growing city of Chicago. She died on March 25^th, 1931.

• Bay, Mia. To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells, New York: Hill and Wang, 2010.
• Giddings, Paula J. Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching, New York: Harper, 2009.
• PHOTO: Library of Congress

MLA – Norwood, Arlisha. 'Ida B. Wells-Barnett.' National Women's History Museum. National Women's History Museum, 2017. Date accessed.

Chicago- Norwood, Arlisha. 'Ida B. Wells-Barnett.' National Women's History Museum. 2017. www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/ida-wells-barnett.

• Wells, Ida B. Crusader for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

The Enemy Sex is a 1924 silent film drama starring Betty Compson and directed by her husband James Cruze. It was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released by Paramount Pictures. It is taken from the 1914 novel The Salamander by Owen Johnson.^[1][2]

A print is preserved at the Library of Congress, Packard Campus.^[3][4]

Cast[edit]

• Betty Compson as 'Dodo' Baxter
• Percy Marmont as Garry Lindaberry
• Sheldon Lewis as Albert Edward Sassoon
• Huntley Gordon as Judge Massingale
• Kathlyn Williams as Mrs. Massingale
• DeWitt Jennings as Harrigan Blood
• Edward Faust as Comte de Joncy (credited as Ed Faust)
• William H. Turner as Blaineey
• Pauline Bush as Miss Snyder
• Dot Farley as Ida Summers
• William Austin as Joe's Friend (uncredited)
• Dorothy Dwan as Showgirl (uncredited)
• Pauline French as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

References[edit]

1. ^Progressive Silent Film List: The Enemy Sex at silentera.com
2. ^The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Enemy Sex
3. ^The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Enemy Sex
4. ^Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artist Collection at The Library of Congress, (<-book title) c.1978 by The American Film Institute

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External links[edit]

• The Enemy Sex at IMDb
• The Enemy Sex at the TCM Movie Database
• Synopsis at AllMovie
• Still with Dorothy Dwan at gettyimages.com
• book cover of Owen Johnson's book The Salamander(Yesterday's Gallery & Babylon Revisited, rare books

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