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July 16th

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  1. 1862
    The Rise

    Ida B. Wells born

    Ida Bell Wells is born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, several months before the Emancipation Proclamation reaches the region. She becomes a founding figure of investigative journalism on racial violence.

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