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Posted: Friday December 5th, 2003 19:40 |
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What do you know about your Black History? Most people know something but not everthing. I thought we could use this thread as a fun way of sharing with each other, learning together, and teaching each other about our own History, all you have to do is post no more than 2 pieces of historical facts per day without giving information that has already been posted on this thread(don't know if anyone will join in, but what the hell, gonna try it anyway).
Otis Boykin patents the Electrical Resistor
February 21th 1961
Otis Boykin, Inventor, patented the Electrical Resistor. U.S. 2,972,726 He is responsible for inventing the electrical device used in all guided missiles and IBM computers, plus 26 other electronic devices including a control unit for an artificial heart stimulator (pacemaker). He began his career as a laboratory assistant testing automatic controls for aircraft. One of Boykin's first achievements was a type of resistor used in computers, radios, television sets, and a variety of electronic devices. Some of his other inventions included a variable resistor used in guided missiles, small component thick-film resistors for computers. The innovations in resistor design reduced the cost of producing electronic controls for radio and television, for both military and commercial applications. Other inventions by Otis Boykin also included a burglarproof cash register and chemical air filter 
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Posted: Friday December 5th, 2003 20:30 |
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Good topic Dillinger.
In 1964, (December 10), Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Martin Luther King Jr. at ceremonies in Oslo, Norway. He was the third black and the youngest person to receive the award.
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Posted: Friday December 5th, 2003 23:53 |
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This is a terrific thread Dillinger.
MADAM C.J. WALKER (inventor/Businesswoman/philanthropist)
Born Sarah Breedlove in Louisiana to former slaves in 1867...walker is often erroneously credited with inventing the straightning comb but rather invented a conditioning treatment for straigtening hair. Walker was an early pioneer of the black hair care and cosmetics industry who went on to become the first female millionaire. She made many contributions to black charities and causes among them a generous donation to the NAACP's anti-lynching campaign before she died.
Madam C. J. Walker died in 1919.Last edited on Saturday December 6th, 2003 05:09 by Sage
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Posted: Saturday December 6th, 2003 05:03 |
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The Right Excellent Nanny of the Maroons
Nanny of the Maroons lived about 250 years ago. She died in the 1750s. Her ancestors were the Asante people of Africa. They lived in the country now called Ghana. When Nanny lived, most of the African people in Jamaica were slaves. They were brought to Jamaica to work on the sugar plantations.
At the time Jamaica was captured by the English, a number of slaves were set free by the Spanish to prevent them falling into the hands of the English. They were the maroons.
Nanny was not a slave, but she led many Maroons into the hills in Portland. They called the place where they lived Nanny Town. The owners of the plantations wanted to get the slaves back. The colonial forces came into the hills, and Nanny and her people had to fight these soldiers to stay free.
Nanny became the Queen Mother. In Asante Land the Queen Mother was the "Mother of the people". She was the political leader and a religious leader. Nanny was very powerful. Her people thought she could work magic.
The Maroons did not have many guns. They took some from dead soldiers. They stole some, and they traded for some. Mostly, they had to fight without guns. They were very good at living and fighting in the bush. They had to be, in order to survive. They hid in the bush, and they set traps for the colonial forces. They surprised them, and they frightened them. This way of fighting is called Guerilla warfare. While the Maroon men were fighting, the women planted and grew food. Everyone had a job to do. Nanny used an Abeng to call her people in the bush.
An abeng is a cow horn. And the Maroons still use them.
Nanny town was hidden in the hills, but in the end the colonial forces found it. They captured it and kept it for about a year. They built a small fort there. But Nanny took her people further into the hills. Later, they went back to Nanny town. They surprised the soldiers, and they took the town again.
Maroons in eastern and Central Jamaica made peace with the English. Nanny did not want to, but the English persuaded her War-chief Quao to sign a peace-treaty. Nanny was one of the most important fighters for freedom and independence.
In the end, the English let Nanny have land at a place called New Nanny Town, which we call Moore Town. Nanny got this land for her people forever.
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Posted: Saturday December 6th, 2003 05:20 |
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Mary Seacole - 1805-1881 made famous during the crimean war. Jamaican nurse
QUEEN CHARLOTTE Wife of George III and grandma of Queen Victoria
QUEEN PHILLIPA Wife of King Edward III became England's first black queen in 1330
IGNATIOUS SANCHO 18th century writer and businessman
i thought i just give these few for a start. some of these were listed in the daily mirror during uk's black history month this past october
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Posted: Saturday December 6th, 2003 05:44 |
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The slave trade BEGAN in 1619, (this is for those who think we have always been slaves in the western world).
It ENDED in 1835 for Britain in the West Indies and 1865 in America.
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Posted: Saturday December 6th, 2003 06:02 |
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Harriet Ross (A.k.a Harriet Tubman her marriage name)
Born in Dorchester county, Maryland 1819 - died in 1913...
She is responsible for the underground rail road system. Where she freed herself as well as millions of other afro-americans from slavery. Harriet is honored up to this day for her remarkable bravery and courage.
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Posted: Saturday December 6th, 2003 06:13 |
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This is something that i never knew until i found out when i attended a convention last monday gone with the lecturer Tony Martin in north london the island of St Vincent which is where my parents hail from had a major part in one of the slave rebellions by fighting the british of and keeping them out for 100 years .
Also alot of you might already know this the first black heavy weight champion of the world Jack Johnson some time around the early 1900,s by beating Jess Willard for the heavy weight championship.
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Posted: Saturday December 6th, 2003 16:25 |
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Dr. Charles Drew
Invented Blood Banks and Established Them Around The World
Charles Richard Drew was born in Washington, D.C. on June 3, 1904. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Amherst University in 1926. He received a Medical Doctorate (M.D.) and Master of Surgery (C.M.) from McGill University, Montreal, Quebec in 1933. In 1940 Dr. Drew received a Doctor of Science in Medicine from Columbia University in 1940. Dr. Drew served as an Instructor in Pathology at Howard University in 1936 and as an Assistant in Surgery (1936). Charles Drew was made Professor of Surgery and Chief Surgeon for Freedmen's Hospital. Dr. Drew is responsible for organizing the concept of the Blood Bank. Dr. Drew researched in blood plasma for transfusion due to longer life of the blood with cells removed (plasma) while at Presbyterian Hospital in New York, NY. He organized a blood bank in London during World War II.
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Posted: Sunday December 7th, 2003 07:50 |
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Garrett Augustus Morgan
Fascinating facts about Garrett Morgan inventor of the traffic light in 1923.
Garrett Augustus Morgan (1877-1963), is best known for his invention of the automatic traffic signal. He also is the inventor of the gas mask, used by firemen in the early 1900s and by soldiers in World War I.
Morgan was born on March 4, 1877, in Paris, Kentucky, the seventh of eleven children. His formal education ended with fifth grade at 14 years old at which time he left home and moved about until he ended up in Cleveland. In 1901 he sold his first
invention, a sewing machine sales and repair shop and then a tailoring shop two years later. While trying to repair a sewing machine he created and patented the first chemical human hair straightener.
Financially secure, Morgan focused his attention on other ideas. In 1912 he developed a gas mask and the traffic signal in 1923.
rember all you have to do is post no more than 2 pieces of historical facts per day without giving information that has already been posted on this thread (its all about sharing info).
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Posted: Sunday December 7th, 2003 08:04 |
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Jack Roosevelt Robinson...aka Jackie Robinson although the first African American male to break major league baseball's color barrier in April of 1947...he was by no means the only brother to do that in the same year.
Following him into the history books for crossing the color line were...
Larry Doby..played for the Cleveland Indians July 5th, 1947
Henry Thompson and Willard Brown...Thompson and Brown were the first black teammates in the majors when they played together for the St.Louis Browns in July of 1947
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Posted: Sunday December 7th, 2003 08:25 |
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Kwame Ture our Revolutionary Young Ancestor
Debilitated by a cancer that resulted from years of perpetual and constant attacks of the co-intelpro operation, Brother Kwame joined our ancestors Nov 15th 1998. But his spirit and mind have transcended his physical death; as both entities find full expression and new lives in the form of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party and in the context of the struggle for Pan-Africanism.
Kwame Ture in life was the living embodiment of African national liberation and scientific socialism; of Pan-Africanism.
As our Young Ancestor -- he still stands for those very same things. What he will be remembered for most is his uncompromising commitment to fight for our people in our struggle to build Pan-Africanism, and achieve power, peace and freedom; and prosperity.
His long work in support/on behalf of the PLO, the Irish Republican movement, AIM, Cuba, Libya, revolutionary Korea, the Nation of Islam, his work serving the mass Pan-Africanist parties, the PDG, PAC, NJAC, and many other organizations and movements, speak to his determination. Each of these things were/are great stimulus for the further growth and development of the people's consciousness, and Pan-Africanism.
Because of his great contribution to the struggle for justice all over the world; and for all peoples, -- his anti-imperialist war and anti-militarist activities, his participation in environmentalist, constitutional, civil, gender equality, and civic struggles, he has served the interest of many millions of people who had never seen him or heard him speak. This is the universal legacy of our great young Ancestor Kwame.
In life Kwame was a man of the people, in death he has become a critical part of the people's collective conscience and personality. This is the continuing significance of our great leader, comrade and friend, Brother Kwame Ture.
As Minister Louis Farrakhan observed: "Lives that are lived for personal gain and aggrandizement are lives that are lived in vain. The value of those lives in the eyes of Allah (God) and history are very little. Every life lived, to ensure that the eternal principles of freedom, justice and equality are gained and enjoyed by those who are deprived of these essentials of life, are the most valuable of human lives.
Kwame Ture's life has not been lived for personal gain. Therefore, his life is one of the most valuable lives among our people. So, whatever he gives his life for, it becomes the duty of those of us who remains behind to ensure that this valuable life and what he gave it for will be carried into fruition. "
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William Davidson was a Co Conspiritor in a plan to blow up Parliament.
 William Davidson was born in Kingston Jamaica in 1786 and he travelled to Britain at the age of 14. He married an English Woman who had four sons and they set up home in Maryleborne. Davidson was appalled by the Peterloo Massacre in which 11 unarmed demonstrators had been killed and over 500 injured.
In response to this he joined the Maryleborne reading society to better educate himself. He held meetings at his house where radicals who opposed the government would gather, talk tactics and practise military drills.
Reports held today by the public records office show that the group was infiltrated by police informants who kept track on the meetings and records of the group. spy and agent provocateur called George Edwards, who repeatedly advocated
such measures as blowing up parliament. The conspirators rejected these schemes because they did not want to harm innocent MPs. Eventually using a phoney article in the Times, Edwards was able to entrap the Cat Street conspirators in a plot to murder the cabinet at the Grosvenor Square House of Lord Harrowby.
The group fell into the governments trap and were arrested before they embarked.
 Thistlewood and Davidson were among those arrested. They were tried for high treason, found guilty and were sentenced to be hung beheaded and Quartered. However an act of Clemency by the King saved them from being Quartered.
On May the 1st 1820 the largest ever crowd assembled for an execution. the crowd was split into 2 ,groups by ranks of Lifeguard, Blackfriars Bridge was guarded by 100 men, Artillery men and six guns. The men were hanged and beheaded outside the debtors door of Newgate Jail. The crowd reportedly were wild with fury and chants of Murder rung out!
This was the last Public Decapitation in England!
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Posted: Tuesday December 9th, 2003 06:11 |
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| Hummph, above was probably innocent that's why the crowd yelled out murder.
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Posted: Tuesday December 9th, 2003 06:56 |
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Considered the most inventive black American inventor of the 19th century, Granville T. Woods received 45 invention patents from the U.S. Patent Office.
He was awarded 25 patents between 1884 and 1900, and 20 additional patents between 1901 and 1907. This count is based on the U.S. Patent Office Records.
According to one source, Granville was born free on April 23, 1856 in Columbus, Ohio. However, there is also an earlier source, based on an interview given by Woods during his lifetime, that says he was born in Australia to an aborigine father and a Malaysian mother and moved to the United States with his parents when he was a boy.
Some of Granville T. Woods' creations included improvements to electric railways, air brakes, telephones and telegraphs, a chicken egg incubator, and an apparatus for an amusement park ride.
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HAITI: The First Black Republic In The World
Toussaint L'Ouverture was born a slave near Cap-Haitian. His grandfather was king of the "Arada" tribe in Africa before being brought to Saint Domingue. Toussaint who became a freed Negro learned to read and write at 50. When Napoleon Bonaarte sent a French expedition to reestablish slavery in the island, Toussaint fought against General Leclerc and declared himself governor of Haiti. Known as the "Black Spartacus", and the "Precursor" of independence of Haiti, Toussaint is one of the founders and heroes of Haiti.
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Posted: Saturday January 31st, 2004 23:22 |
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I wanted to bump this up since here in the US we are about to observe Black History Month.
Jewel Plummer Cobb
biologist, physiologist
Born: 1/17/1924
Birthplace: Chicago, Ill.
Jewel Plummer Cobb has had wide-ranging influence in the sciences. Awarded a Ph.D. in cell physiology from New York University in 1950, she has served as a researcher, a college professor and administrator, as well as a staunch supporter for greater minority participation in scientific careers. Much of Cobb's research has been focused on the skin pigment melanin, and her most significant research has been with testing new chemotherapeutic drugs in cancer cells, the impact of which continues. She has held several teaching and administrative positions at major universities. From 1960 to 1969, she was a professor at Sarah Lawrence College. From 1969 to 1976 she served as Dean and Professor of Zoology at Connecticut College. From 1976 to 1981, Cobb served as Dean and Professor of Biology at Douglass College, the women's college at Rutgers University. From 1981 to 1990 Cobb was President of California State University at Fullerton where she spearheaded efforts to increase the quality and diversity of both the student population and the faculty. A supporter of equal access to educational and professional opportunity, Cobb has written often about racial and sexual discrimination in the sciences, and has raised funds to allow more minorities to enter into the field. Since her retirement, Cobb, who was named President and Professor of Biological Science, Emerita at California State University at Fullerton and Trustee Professor at California State University at Los Angeles, has continued her research
Benjamin Banneker
mathematician, astronomer, surveyor
Born: 11/9/1731
Birthplace: Ellicott's Mills, Md.
Benjamin Banneker has been called the first African American intellectual. Self-taught, after studying the inner workings of a friend's watch, he made one of wood that accurately kept time for more than 40 years. Banneker taught himself astronomy well enough to correctly predict a solar eclipse in 1789. From 1791 to 1802 he published the Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia Almanac and Ephemeris, which contained tide tables, future eclipses, and medicinal formulas. It is believed to be the first scientific book published by an African American. Also a surveyor and mathematician, Banneker was appointed by President George Washington to the District of Columbia Commission, which was responsible for the survey work that established the city's original boundaries. When the chairman of the committee, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, suddenly resigned and left, taking the plans with him, Banneker reproduced the plans from memory, saving valuable time. A staunch opponent of slavery, Banneker sent a copy of his first almanac to then-Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson to counter Jefferson's belief in the intellectual inferiority of blacks.
Died: 10/9/1806
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Posted: Sunday February 1st, 2004 14:41 |
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TO ATHABA,
U wrote: In 1964, (December 10), Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Martin Luther King Jr. at ceremonies in Oslo, Norway. He was the third black and the youngest person to receive the award.
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Respectfully.......i say to hell with Nobel Prize.....u r only making a big deal out of this cos it was invented by whites.......Alfred Nobel was not black......y do u have to make a big deal out of it.......Do whites make a big deal out of black awards or black whatever.
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Romare Bearden
Romare Bearden , 1914–88, American painter and collagist, b. Charlotte, N.C. Bearden grew up in Harlem and, in his work, attempted to come to terms with the experience of African Americans. Although his early work involved religious themes, his later production showed a greater connection with jazz and its relation to the art of collage. He is also noted for his prints in a variety of media, e.g., the lithographs in “Jazz Series� (1979). In the 1960s, he was a founder of the Cinque Gallery, which was intended to help young artists, and the Spiral Group, which aided African-American artists.
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Dunham, Katherine , 1909–, American dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist, b. Chicago. She studied anthropology at the Univ. of Chicago, where she began her studies on dances of the Caribbean. In addition to teaching anthropology, from the late 1930s until the 1960s, she directed her own dance company, which toured the United States and Europe. Her choreography combines Caribbean and African movements and rhythms with those of modern dance. In 1965, she accepted a position as adviser to the cultural ministry of Senegal. In 1967, she became director of the Performing Arts Training Center at the East St. Louis branch of Southern Illinois Univ., where she works with youth groups. Through her choreography, teaching, and appearances in different media, she brought African dance to the attention of the public and exerted tremendous influence on the evolution of modern dance. Her works include Chorus and Bal Negre. She also choreographed the film Cabin in the Sky (1940) and Aida (1963) at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
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Posted: Monday February 2nd, 2004 09:21 |
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i started a black history thread..but no one replied 
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 @ Bluehoney...this thread was started by Dillinger in December 2003...
Mary McLeod Bethune
Mary McLeod Bethune , 1875–1955, American educator, b. Mayesville, S.C., grad. Moody Bible Institute, Chicago, 1895. The 17th child of former slaves, she taught (1895–1903) in a series of southern mission schools before settling in Florida to found (1904) the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Negro Girls. From 1904 to 1942 and again from 1946 to 1947, she served as president of the institute, which, after merging with Cookman Institute (1923), became Bethune-Cookman College. A leader in the American black community, she founded the National Council of Negro Women (1935) and was director (1936–44) of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration. In addition, she served as special adviser on minority affairs to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. At the 1945 conference that organized the United Nations, she was a consultant on interracial understanding.
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Asa Philip Randolph
Randolph, Asa Philip, 1889–1979, U.S.. labor leader, b. Crescent City, Fla., attended the College of the City of New York. As a writer and editor of the black magazine The Messenger, which he helped to found, Randolph became interested in the labor movement. In 1917 he organized a small union of elevator operators in New York City. After an unsuccessful campaign for the office of New York secretary of state on the Socialist ticket, he devoted his energies to organizing the Pullman car porters, a group of black workers he had tried to organize earlier. Despite bitter opposition by the Pullman Company, Randolph eventually won recognition for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, pay increases, and shorter hours. Randolph was elected president of the union when it was formed in 1925. An untiring fighter for civil rights, he organized (1941) the March on Washington Movement in protest against job discrimination. This movement, although it did not culminate in a march, is credited with hastening the establishment of the Fair Employment Practices Committee during World War II. Randolph was also one of the most prominent leaders in the fight against segregation in the armed forces. His election to a vice presidency of the AFL-CIO in 1955 was, in part, in recognition of his efforts to eliminate racial discrimination in the organized labor movement. In 1963, Randolph was director of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, one of the largest civil-rights demonstrations ever conducted in the United States. The A. Philip Randolph Institute was founded in 1964 by Randolph and others to serve and promote cooperation between labor and the black community. Randolph retired from the presidency of the union in 1968, although he continued in his position as a vice president of the AFL-CIO.
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Born: 12/9/22
Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri
African-American comedian who made his mark in the TV smash Sanford and Son (1972–77) after many years of odd jobs and short stretches on the night club circuit, including a kitchen job with Malcolm Little who would later be known as Malcolm X. Foxx hit it big in Las Vegas in 1968, but didn't make the celluloid jump until the 1970 film Cotton Comes to Harlem. The role brought him to the attention of producers Bud Yorkin and Norman Lear who decided to cast Foxx in Sanford and Son, his first major success. The show was followed by others, including The Redd Foxx Comedy Hour (1977–78) and the Redd Foxx Show (1986). He later co-edited The Redd Foxx Encyclopedia of Black Humor (1977).
Died: 10/11/91
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Angela Davis
Angela Yvonne Davis, 1944–, African-American political activist, b. Birmingham, Ala. She taught philosophy (1969–70) at the Univ. of California, Los Angeles, until she was finally denied reappointment because of her membership in the Communist party and her advocacy of radical black causes. In Aug., 1970, she went into hiding after a gun legally registered to her was used in an attempted courtroom escape in which a judge and three others were killed. Apprehended two months later, she was tried on charges of conspiracy, murder, and kidnapping (1972). After months in prison, she was released on bail and later acquitted. She has since taught at San Francisco State Univ. (1979–91) and the Univ. of California at Santa Cruz (1992–). Davis was the American Communist party's vice-presidential candidate in 1980 and 1984.
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett
journalist, activist
Born: 1862
Birthplace: Holly Springs, Miss.
Her parents were slaves when Wells was born and died from yellow fever when she was 14. By 1891 Wells was an outspoken, young free woman. That | | | |
