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Ida B. Wells was a groundbreaking journalist and civil rights activist in the decades after the Civil War. She worked fiercely for the equal treatment of Black people in schools, in society, and at the voting booth. With her powerful voice, she spoke out against injustice wherever she saw it.

"Follows the evolution of race relations in America from the country's earliest beginnings until . . . [modern times]. The book examines how the concept of race originated and then developed through the eras of Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the civil rights movement, and under the presidencies of Barack Obama and Donald Trump"--Provided by publisher.