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Thursday Jul 16, 2020
July 16 - The Birth of a Voice
Thursday Jul 16, 2020
Thursday Jul 16, 2020
On this day in Labor History the year was 1862. That was the day that black-rights activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi. She was the oldest of eight children. Wells went to college, and then became a teacher in Memphis, Tennessee. In Memphis, Ida B. Wells became active in speaking out against black oppression in the Jim Crow South.
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