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Ida B. Wells Continued
Injustice made Wells devote herself to fight the Jim Crow laws. It was 1889 when she had become the co-owner of the Memphis "Free Speech and Headlight" newspaper. Using her position to bring a stop to school segregation and sexual harassment. As publicized her work throughout the south, she investigated lynching's and wrote about them. This caused a mob to destroy her newspaper and threaten death to her, forced her to move north, but she continued her work against the Jim Crow laws. -
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