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Happy Birthday Ida B. Wells!
Her greatness crossed generations: she was old enough to reprimand Susan B Anthony personally for her racism, and young enough to challenge Alice Paul over hers.
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Her greatness crossed generations: she was old enough to reprimand Susan B Anthony personally for her racism, and young enough to challenge Alice Paul over hers.
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#IdaBWells’ contribution to justice in the U.S. is so massive, so multi-faceted, that tweets can hardly contain it. Read her autobiography, Crusade for Justice, or Mia Bay’s book or Paula Giddings’. In the meanwhile, DailySuffragist’s IdaB threads are collected here. 
Ida’s story begins... https://twitter.com/DailySuffragist/status/1196554855973892098
Ida fights segregation on the railroad https://twitter.com/DailySuffragist/status/1197011398464806912
Ida B. Wells, newspaper owner & editor https://twitter.com/DailySuffragist/status/1197862497413468166
The lynching of Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell and William Stewart https://twitter.com/DailySuffragist/status/1198749716286193664
Black Memphis boycotts the streetcars https://twitter.com/DailySuffragist/status/1199033851890348032
Ida’s life changes https://twitter.com/DailySuffragist/status/1199794477243785217
Ida meets Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin https://twitter.com/DailySuffragist/status/1233232168652070912
Founding of the National Association of Colored Women https://twitter.com/DailySuffragist/status/1233519336415014913
Ida in Brooklyn https://twitter.com/DailySuffragist/status/1236478764126740481
Ida v. Frances Willard https://twitter.com/DailySuffragist/status/1242295620037156864
Founding of the NAACP https://twitter.com/DailySuffragist/status/1261858963651465219
1913 Washington, DC Inauguration March https://twitter.com/DailySuffragist/status/1277774457885597696
Ida v. Chicago Tribune https://twitter.com/DailySuffragist/status/1280605453223936002
Winning Presidential Suffrage in Illinois https://twitter.com/DailySuffragist/status/1283600749537243138?s=20
