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Ida B. Wells Boycotts the World’s Fair – Part 2
[ Read Part 1 of this post. ] Chicago eventually became Ida B. Well’s home base. What drew her here, away from her significant writing and crusading in Memphis, was controversy over the “White City” of the 1893 World’s Fair. Blacks were … Continue reading →
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Tagged 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, Black Writing from Chicago: In the World-Not of It?, Ferdinand L. Barnett, Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, The Reason Why Colored Americans Are Not in the World Columbian Exposition
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