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Ida B. Wells
(1862–1931) was an
African-American
journalist, newspaper editor,
suffragist
, sociologist, and an early leader in the
civil rights movement
. Born into slavery in
Holly Springs, Mississippi
, Wells and her family were freed by the
Emancipation Proclamation
of 1863. Despite losing her parents to
yellow fever
when she was sixteen, Wells attended
Fisk University
and became a teacher. Politically active since her youth, she also became a writer on race issues and campaigned against
lynching
; in this latter capacity she published two influential pamphlets and traveled throughout the United States and the United Kingdom. Wells also helped establish the
National Association of Colored Women
and the
National Afro-American Council
.
Photograph: Mary Garrity; restoration:
Adam Cuerden
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