Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Ida Wells-Barnett

Ida Wells is known for being an early civil rights activist leader. She was also very much involved in the suffragist movement as well. She is was a journalist and newspaper editor. Ms. Wells documented with great extent the lynchings that occurred in the United States.

Oh, and you know that little organization called the NAACP. Well, she is one its great founders.

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