celebratingamazingwomen:Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) was an African-American sociologist, suffragette, a
celebratingamazingwomen:Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) was an African-American sociologist, suffragette, and early leader of the civil rights movement. Born a slave in Mississippi, she was freed, along with her family, under the Emancipation Proclamation. After becoming a teacher in a black elementary school, she grew to resent the segregation and the unfairly low salary compared to white teachers, which encouraged her to become an activist.She investigated the phenomenon of lynching, finding that it was rooted in racial hate and prejudice rather than in black criminal activity, as previously claimed. As a consequence, she started an intense anti-lynching campaign. -- source link
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