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Ida B. Wells
"The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them". This quote was stated by Ida B. Wells. Wells was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, in 1862 and died in Chicago, Illinois, in 1931 at the age of 69. When Wells was young, the epidemic " Yellow Fever", ravaged through Mississippi, killing her parents and her youngest sibling. She became a teacher in order to support her remaining family. Despite the racism she had faced during her teaching career, her first act of defiance towards discrimination was in Memphis, 1884. Wells was ordered to leave her seat on a train even though she had paid for a first-class ticket. She refused, and the conductor coercively removed Wells from the train, bringing applause from other passengers.
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