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Monuments to white supremacy
By BRENT STAPLES New York Times News Service
This article was published January 14, 2018 at 2:01 a.m.
Legendary Memphis newspaper editor Ida B. Wells was targeted for assassination--and driven into exile--for exposing the lies that were routinely used to justify hanging, dismembering and burning alive African Americans in the Jim Crow South.
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