Ida Bell Wells-Barnett
(July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931)
Soon after moving to Memphis, Wells was hired in Woodstock by the Shelby County school system.
During her summer vacations she attended summer sessions at Fisk University, a historically black college in Nashville.
She also attended Lemoyne-Owen College, a historically black college in Memphis.
She held strong political opinions and provoked many people with her
views on women's rights.
At the age of 24, she wrote, "I will not begin
at this late day by doing what my soul abhors; sugaring men, weak
deceitful creatures, with flattery to retain them as escorts or to
gratify a revenge."[9]
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