Ida B. Wells Barnett (1862-1931)
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Ida B. Wells Barnett was a co-founder of the NAACP, an anti-lynch crusader and a Black female journalist. After earning degrees from Rust College and Fisk University, she taught in Memphis Tennessee and began writing articles for the Black Newspaper, Free Speech. She is well known for being outspoken against the senseless lynching of [...]
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