VOTING RIGHTS A HISTORY-IDA B. WELLS

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Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She was active in the women’s Suffrage Movement, and working on behalf of all women, called for President Woodrow Wilson to put an end to discriminatory hiring practices. She established the National Association of Colored Women, and was a founding member of NAACP. Published work ‘A Red Record’.