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Civil rights activist Ida B Wells born

July 16, 1862 - March 25, 1931 (69)

Ida B WellsCivil rights activist Ida B Wells born in Holly Springs, Mississippi. She was a civil rights advocate and an early women's rights advocate active in the Woman Suffrage Movement.

Fearless in her opposition to lynchings, Wells documented hundreds of these atrocities.

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