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By Jasmine Browley ·Updated December 4, 2023
It was a plain paragraph on page 1 of the New York Times, devoid of the usual fluttery wordplay you’d find in a typical wedding announcement.
“June 27, 1895—Ida B. Wells, the colored woman who gained international publicity by her anti-lynching lectures in England was married in Bethel Church to-night to Ferninand L. Barnett, a local colored attorney of prominence, who is the
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