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anti-lynching campaign  

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  • African American women played a key role in the fight to stop lynchings in the United States. In 1892, following the lynchings of three of her friends, Ida B. Wells became a leader in the antilynching movement. [Source: Encyclopedia of Black Studies; Antilynching Campaign]

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