Was This Civil Rights Icon’s Legacy Ignored Because She Was a Republican?

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Was This Civil Rights Icon’s Legacy Ignored Because She Was a Republican?
 
By Rusty | Featured Contributor | April 20, 2018 9:30AM

Ida B. Wells was a civil rights icon, born a slave in 1862, who would later be freed by Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, and go on to become a prominent African-American journalist, abolitionist, and feminist.

She was a crusader who fought to expose the horrific practices of lynching in the United States and even refused to give up her seat on a train decades before Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955.

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