"[3] In her acceptance speech, she said: "I have always thought that citizenship was a privilege that carried with it responsibilities, primarily, as our spiritual leaders tell us, that ‘we are our brothers’ keepers.’ And therefore we should promote in every way possible the progress and prestige of the community in which we live.

[2] Ida Weis began her activism at the age of 15, raising money for Touro Infirmary, a Jewish hospital in New Orleans.

Their son Julius Weis Friend was an editor of The Double-Dealer, a short-lived but influential New Orleans literary magazine (1921-1925) that published many up-and-coming modernist writers.

The Double Dealer had an unusual number of women contributors and also published African American writers, including poet Jean Toomer.

[8] Her brother Samuel Washington Weis, a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy (1888) and MIT (1892), was a sketch artist and entrepreneur.

[9] From 1919 to 1921, Ida Weis Friend advocated for a government-supported network of ethical businesses, including a woman-owned cooperative grocery store.

Friend was active in the Era Club of New Orleans, a suffrage and service organization whose name was an acronym: Equal Rights for All.

In 1938, she helped found the New Orleans chapter of the Urban League, an organization dedicated to civil rights and economic empowerment.