Ida B. Wells
1862–1931 · Person
Investigative journalist whose anti-lynching crusade and suffrage work fused racial and gender justice.
On these timelines: Women in history, USA, People, Master
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- Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
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- The Feminine Mystique published (1963)
- Susan B. Anthony (1820)
- Rosa Parks (1913)
Around 1862
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- German unification (1871)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- American Civil War (1861)
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- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Founding of the German Empire (1871)
- British Raj (1858)