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12 mar 2008 · Henrietta Bell Wells, the only woman, the only freshman and the last surviving member of the 1930 Wiley College debate team that participated in the first interracial collegiate debate in the...
Henrietta Bell Wells (October 11, 1912 – February 27, 2008) was the first female member of the debate team at historically black Wiley College in Texas. She was born Henrietta Pauline Bell on the banks of Buffalo Bayou in Houston, Texas to a West Indian single mother.
6 cze 2008 · Wallace Wells died in 1987. In 2007 Denzel Washington directed a fictionalized account of the debate team called The Great Debaters , consulting Henrietta for details. Henrietta Pauline Bell Wells died on February 27, 2008, in Baytown, Texas.
Henrietta Bell Wells died in February of 2008 just two months after the movie The Great Debaters revisited her extraordinary achievement as part of the first interracial college debate-team match-up in U.S. history in 1930.
29 lut 2008 · Henrietta Bell Wells, the only female member of the 1930 debate team from Wiley College who participated in the first collegiate interracial debate in the U.S. and was the last surviving member of...
15 mar 2008 · Henrietta Bell Wells, the only woman, the only freshman and the last surviving member of the 1930 Wiley College debate team that participated in the first interracial collegiate debate in the...
12 mar 2008 · Henrietta Bell Wells, the only woman, the only freshman and the last surviving member of the 1930 Wiley College debate team that participated in the first interracial collegiate debate in the United States, died on Feb. 27 in Baytown, Tex. She was 96. Her friend Edward Cox confirmed the death.
