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Ida B Wells Historical Background

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Ida B Wells being one of the oldest daughters of James and Lizzie Wells, born in 1862 , Ida B. Wells was born as a slave. She was born in the Confederate states , six months after Ida B. Wells was born these states was considered free due to the Emancipation Proclamation. The Wells family living in Mississippi, even though the African Americans were free they were still facing racial discrimination in many ways . In her teen years, both of her parents died due to yellow fever . After the death of her parents, in 1882 Wells and her siblings moved to Memphis, Tennessee where she lived with her aunt and she continued her education at Fisk University. One day as Wells was going from Memphis to Nashville by train and buying a first class ticket,

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