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The thing that stands out about Ms. Ida B. Wells is that she was a one man or should I say one woman wrecking crew when it came to crusading journalism. Especially when it came to equal rights, racism and lynching in her time.
Wells was born in Mississippi in 1862 to two slave parents. She was the oldest of her seven siblings. At the time that Wells was born Abraham Lincoln had just passed the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared, "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free". So when she was growing up although the south was still very racist, she and her siblings were able to go to school. It was very important to Wells' parents that their children got an education. That is where her foundation for being a journalist began. Tragedy struck in 1878 when the yellow fever epidemic killed her parents and her youngest sibling. At age sixteen Wells became responsible for her younger siblings. She took a job as......

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