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[close] America owes a great debt to Ida B. Wells for the fact that lynchings are no longer a celebrated public spectacle in our country. She was ahead of her time, a working mother, an activist for the disenfranchised, she refused to settle for "good enough". This is her autobiography. you can see my review on Wells' importance here:

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