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Ida B. Wells

July 20, 2016 in Community

RP reader Ananya Shah kills it at National History Day

Inspired by the RP post on Ida B. Wells, National History Fair winner Ananya Shah did an amazing performance of Wells' trip to England.
July 16, 2015

Ida B. Wells’ 153rd Birthday

Google celebrates the birthday of a former Rejected Princess
Ida B. Wells (1862-1931)
Princess of the Press
One of the first anti-lynching advocates, she risked her life for decades to report on the truth when nobody would believe her.
Madam C.J. Walker (1867-1919)
The Mother Who Made Her Own Fortune
America's ostensible first female self-made millionaire was a black beauty magnate who did it all for her daughter.

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