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Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a courageous, outspoken activist who fought against racism, sexism and other indignities against African Americans. Wells-Barnett direct experience with lynching led her to the lifelong crusade for justice, which she will be most remembered for and an notable contribution that helped change history.

Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s social theory is considered to be a radical non-Marxian conflict theory with a focus on a “Pathological interaction between differences and power in U.S. society.  A condition they variously label a repression, domination, suppression, despotism, subordination, subjugation, tyranny, and our American conflict.  Ida produced a theory of the intersection of race, class and gender which adds a vital strand to the feminist tradition of sociology. (Lengermann and Niebrugge-Brantley, 1998).






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