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Gr 5 Up—More than 70 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, 21-year-old Ida B. Wells, born enslaved in Mississippi, resisted her forced ejection from a segregated train and filed a lawsuit against the Chesapeake, Ohio, and Southwestern Railroad. This was not the last time Wells fought Jim Crow. As a journalist and activist, she dedicated her life to challenging injustice and became an outspoken, courageous crusader against lynching. This book chronicles Wells's youth, her ye...Log In or Sign Up to Read More