Ida B. Wells, journalist, suffragist and early civil-rights leader, is being honored for her birthday today with one of the now famous Google homepage “Doodles”:
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Today's Google Doodle celebrates journalist Ida B. Wells' birthday http://t.co/pJMivlhl15 via @TIME
— Chaunda Ball-Martin (@cballmartin) July 16, 2015
Wells is also famous for saying “the Winchester rifle deserved a place of honor in every Black home” as a means of protecting blacks from lynch mobs. But a Winchester rifle didn’t make the doodle. What’s up with that, Google?
@CamEdwards Many people (mostly progressives) seem to forget how enthusiastic most civil rights leaders were about firearms ownership.
— Peter Carangelo (@PeterCarangelo) July 16, 2015
Yes they do.
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