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Inspired by her own grandmother's newspaper-reading habit to write about the role of the black press in post-Civil War history, the author modeled her main protagonist, Ivoe Williams, on the famous African American journalist Ida B. Wells (1862–1931). Barnett richly reimagines Wells's life through Ivoe's experiences, starting with her family and her community's nurturing of her early love of newspapers; a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More