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This is US History 101 not CRT

Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells, 2nd edition by Ida B. Wells

The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells

The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World’s Columbian Exposition by Ida B. Wells, Frederick Douglass, I. Garland Penn, F.L. Barnett

July 10, 2021 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

CBR13bingo Uncannon Ida B. Wells is one of the most important and influential civil rights crusaders in US history, and yet I never learned her name in school. Born into slavery, orphaned as a teen, she became a world-renowned journalist who devoted her life to fighting US lynching laws of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, exposing the truth about the victims and perpetrators of these heinous acts. As she fought to educate the world about the plight of Blacks in the US, she […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, CBR13, cbr13bingo, Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells, ElCicco, F.L. Barnett, Frederick Douglass, I. Garland Penn, Ida B. Wells, non fiction, The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World’s Columbian Exposition, The Red Record

ElCicco's CBR13 Review No:31 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, CBR13, cbr13bingo, Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells, ElCicco, F.L. Barnett, Frederick Douglass, I. Garland Penn, Ida B. Wells, non fiction, The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World’s Columbian Exposition, The Red Record ·
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