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Born in Mississippi a slave and the daughter of slaves, Ida B. Wells-Barnett grew up to become a distinguished journalist, a founder of the NAACP, the leader of an effective anti-lynching campaign waged both in the United States (where it had the support of Susan B. Anthony) and in England, and a vigorous defendant of civil rights. When the United States entered the First World War, she was living in Chicago, where she waged militant opposition to racial oppression. Her autobiography, Crusade for Justice, written shortly before her death, was published in 1970.
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Klein, Y.M. (1997). IDA B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931). In: Klein, Y.M. (eds) Beyond the Home Front. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25497-2_16
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