Getty Images JULY 16 1862—Crusading journalist and an­ti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett is born in Holly Springs, Miss. Wells-Bar­nett was a true militant activist. Her ed­itorials so angered Whites in the Mem­phis, Tenn., area that a mob burned down the building which housed her newspaper. She was also one of the original founders of the … Continued

Getty Images JULY 16 1862—Crusading journalist and an­ti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett is born in Holly Springs, Miss. Wells-Bar­nett was a true militant activist. Her ed­itorials so angered Whites in the Mem­phis, Tenn., area that a mob burned down the building which housed her newspaper. She was also one of the original founders of the … Continued

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