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By Steve Masler, August 15, 2022
Equality Trailblazers Monumen
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
1 ► Tennessee, Shelby County, Memphis, Downtown Memphis — Equality Trailblazers — Honoring 100 Years of Woman Suffrage —  |
| During the last two decades of the 19th century and the first two decades of the 20th, dedicated Tennessee women campaigned relentlessly for woman suffrage. Remembered here are the stories of some of these trailblazers whose perseverance in . . . — — Map (db m203851) HM | |||
| 2 ► Tennessee, Shelby County, Memphis, Downtown Memphis — 4E 85 — Ida B. Wells — 1862–1931 — |
| Ida B. Wells crusaded against lynchings in Memphis and the South. In 1892 while editor of the Memphis Free Speech, located in this vicinity, she wrote of the lynching of three Black businessmen. As a result, her newspaper office was destroyed . . . — — Map (db m9306) HM | |||