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Women to Know in History
I think it’s important to highlight historic black women. So today I wanted to educate the COCOCOZY audience about Ida B. Wells (1862-1931). Ida B. Wells was a prominent Black investigative journalist, researcher, and educator in the early 1960s. She was an NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) founder who led a powerful anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. She traveled overseas to confront white women during the suffrage movement who ignored the cruel act of lynching. Ida received backlash from women’s suffrage organizations but remained focused on her activism. Despite being at the founding meeting of the NAACP, her name is not mentioned as an official founder. Ida was a crusader for the black community and women’s suffrage. Learn more about her here.
Happy Black History Month!
XO,
Coco
