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Ida B. Wells-Barnett  

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  • Ida B. Wells-Barnett—teacher, journalist, feminist, human and civil rights activist—was one of America's most courageous champions for social justice. In the 1890s, Wells-Barnett launched a campaign that called the attention of the nation and the world to the horrors of lynching. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race and Crime; Wells-Barnett, Ida B.]

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