035/100: Ida B. Wells

Get ready for some heavy shit. When Wells was 16, her parents and a brother died of the yellow fever so she raised her other five siblings with her grandma. She moved to Memphis to be closer to family. Later, some of her close friends were lynched for having the audacity of owning a grocery store that competed with the white-owned grocery store across the street. After this, she began to write about the injustices against black people. She was an early leader of the civil rights movement. She started the NAACP and was a vocal feminist. Long story short, she was a woman ahead of her time.
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