Maureen Moss Browning, foster daughter of Ida B. Wells

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Maurine Moss, foster daughter of activist, journalist, and teacher Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Her father Thomas H. Moss, a postman and grocery store owner, was lynched in Memphis, Tennessee, 9 March 1892, an event which compelled Mrs. Wells-Barnett to begin her anti-lynching crusade.

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Title: Maureen Moss Browning, foster daughter of Ida B. Wells
Creator: unknown
Date created: undated

Description: Maurine Moss, foster daughter of activist, journalist, and teacher Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Her father Thomas H. Moss, a postman and grocery store owner, was lynched in Memphis, Tennessee, 9 March 1892, an event which compelled Mrs. Wells-Barnett to begin her anti-lynching crusade.
Subject:
Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931
Browning, Maurine Moss, 1891-1971
Moss, Thomas Henry, died 1892
African American women civil rights workers
Type: Image
Format: Photographic prints
Spatial: Chicago, Illinois

URL: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/scrc/md/ibwells-0010-001-08
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Publisher: University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center