Ida B. Wells - 2026 ACF Regionals

Packet H: Bonus 16

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

<Illinois C, American History> | Packet H - Yale A, Ohio State C, Illinois C, Virginia Tech B, MIT A

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
63	14.60	94%	49%	3%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
Alabama B	WashU B	0	10	0	10	E
Arizona State	UCSD A	0	10	0	10	E
Berkeley C	Berkeley B	10	10	0	20	ME
Brock	Simon Fraser	10	0	0	10	M
Bruin	Georgia Tech C	10	10	0	20	ME
CWRU A	Michigan C	10	10	0	20	ME
Cambridge A	Bristol	0	10	0	10	E
Cambridge B	Warwick A	0	10	0	10	E
Central Florida A	Central Florida B	0	10	0	10	E
Central Florida C	Florida A	0	10	0	10	E
Chicago A	Northwestern B	10	10	0	20	ME
Chicago B	Indiana C	10	10	0	20	ME
Chicago E	Purdue B	10	10	0	20	ME
City St. George's	Cardiff	0	10	0	10	E
Claremont	Washington B	10	10	0	20	ME
Columbia A	NYU B	10	10	0	20	ME
Columbia C	Maryland B	10	10	0	20	ME
Cornell A	RIT	10	10	0	20	ME
Durham	Birmingham	0	10	0	10	E
Florida B	Florida C	0	10	0	10	E
Georgia Tech A	Missouri B	0	10	0	10	E
Georgia Tech B	Tennessee A	0	10	0	10	E
Illinois A	Northwestern D	10	10	0	20	ME
Illinois B	Notre Dame B	10	10	0	20	ME
Imperial A	Edinburgh A	10	10	0	20	ME
Indiana A	Indiana B	10	10	10	30	MEH
Johns Hopkins A	NYU C	10	10	0	20	ME
Johns Hopkins B	Georgetown	0	10	0	10	E
Kentucky	Louisville A	10	10	0	20	ME
LSE	Imperial B	0	10	0	10	E
Louisville B	Georgia Tech D	0	10	0	10	E
Manchester	Oxford A	0	10	0	10	E
McGill A	Carleton University	0	10	0	10	E
McMaster A	Ottawa	10	0	0	10	M
Michigan A	Ohio State A	10	10	0	20	ME
Michigan B	Pittsburgh	10	10	0	20	ME
Michigan State	CWRU B	0	10	0	10	E
Minnesota A	Iowa State	10	10	0	20	ME
Montpellier	Edinburgh B	0	10	0	10	E
Murray State A	Texas A&M A	0	10	0	10	E
NYU A	Vassar	10	10	0	20	ME
Notre Dame A	Chicago C	0	10	0	10	E
Penn State	Cornell B	0	10	0	10	E
Purdue A	Chicago D	0	10	10	20	EH
Rutgers A	Columbia B	10	10	0	20	ME
Southampton A	UCL	0	10	0	10	E
Southampton B	Cambridge C	0	0	0	0
Stanford A	Berkeley D	10	10	0	20	ME
Stanford B	Berkeley A	0	10	0	10	E
Swarthmore	Maryland A	10	10	0	20	ME
Texas A	Texas B	0	10	0	10	E
Toronto E	Waterloo B	10	10	0	20	ME
Toronto G	McGill B	0	10	0	10	E
Toronto Metropolitan	McMaster B	0	10	0	10	E
UBC A	Queen's	0	0	0	0
UBC B	Guelph	10	10	0	20	ME
UCLA A	UCLA B	10	10	0	20	ME
UCSD B	UC Santa Barbara	10	10	0	20	ME
Warwick B	Imperial C	0	10	0	10	E
WashU A	Alabama A	0	10	0	10	E
Washington A	Carleton College	10	10	0	20	ME
Waterloo A	Toronto B	10	10	0	20	ME
Western C	Toronto C	0	10	0	10	E

Summary

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