June 1, 2011
In 1884, Mississippi native Ida B. Wells was removed from a train for refusing to ride in a segregated car. She sued the railroad and won. The overturned decision prompted her to write. Wells became an investigative journalist, and co-owned the Memphis-based black newspaper Free Speech.
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