Ida B. Wells returns to city with new statue
Ida B. Wells returns to the city in a more substantial way Friday, July 16, with the dedication of a statue of her at Fourth and Beale next to First Baptist Church on Beale. (Submitted rendering)
The author of the definitive 2008 biography of the anti-lynching crusader and NAACP cofounder says the statue of Wells defines the city as well as honors her in a city whose leaders once talked of killing her.
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