The Prophetess
Ida B. Wells was born a slave in 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Once the war was over, Ida’s parents took advantage of that Reconstruction “glow-up” by becoming politically active & getting Ida a quality education.
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As a result, she became the target of a mob who did not appreciate her writings condemning lynching. 6/
She helped to form the NAACP.
She bought shares in and co-partnered the Free Speech and Headlight newspaper.
She even refused to give up her seat on a train 80 years before Rosa Parks famously did the same on a Montgomery bus. 8/