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Thursday, July 16, 2015

Happy 153rd Birthday, Ida B. Wells (b. 1862)!

A pioneer for human rights - anti-lynching - freedom of press:
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, more commonly known as Ida B. Wells, was a journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement.
[honored with Google illustration on this date = 16 July 2015 ]

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