Jan twenty second 2022
MORE THAN HALF a century earlier than Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat, Ida B. Wells was faraway from a prepare for refusing to maneuver right into a segregated carriage. Wells, a journalist born into slavery in 1862, later uncovered the horrors of lynching and co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People. She was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer prize in 2020. Now Mattel is honouring her in a Barbie doll. The doll clutches Memphis Free Speech, the newspaper she co-owned. Other girls Mattel is honouring embody Sally Ride, an astronaut, and Maya Angelou, the writer who this week grew to become the primary black girl to seem on the quarter coin.■
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This article appeared within the United States part of the print version below the headline “A brand new Barbie doll commemorates a Nineteenth-century suffragist”