
African-American women’s battle for the vote
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Ida B Wells - A Black American Woman's Life
i love wells because she is apologetic, and she's got a great sense of fashion. Ida wells begins her life out of the profound adversities that face so many black americans in the wake of slavery’s lition. She famously gets into a tussle, more than a tussles, a real brawl, with a train conductor when she is ejected from what was, in the nineteenth century, termed a lady's car. Black women even when they bought a ticket, like wells were not permitted to sit ladis car. And wells fights back, and when she's ejected, sues the railway company. Well, this is the beginning of a career that
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