RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
WOMENS SUFFRAGE
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She was an advocate for heat surgery
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She worked to get better education for African American children
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She protested against factory fires
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She wanted women’s suffrage
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Detailed explanation-1: -Wells (full name: Ida Bell Wells-Barnett) (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931) was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Detailed explanation-2: -African-American journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. She also fought for woman suffrage.
Detailed explanation-3: -Wells was an African-American journalist and early civil rights activist. Her activism began when she led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s.
Detailed explanation-4: -She was educated at Rust University, a freedmen’s school in her native Holly Springs, Mississippi, and at age 14 she began teaching in a country school. She continued to teach after moving to Memphis, Tennessee, in 1884 and attended Fisk University in Nashville during several summer sessions.
Detailed explanation-5: -Wells married her husband, Ferdinand L. Barnett in 1895. They had four children together-Charles, Herman, Ida Jr., and Alfreda. Later, they became grandparents to a total of seven grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.