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Family of Ida B. Wells and Ferdinand Barnett

1917
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Family of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, activist, journalist, teacher, and anti-lynching leader, and lawyer Ferdinand Lee Barnett, publisher of The Conservator, the first African American newspaper in Chicago. From left (2nd row): Hulette (wife of Albert Barnett); Herman Kohlsaat; Sergeant Ferdinand Lee, Jr.; Ida B., Jr.; Charles Aked; Albert Graham; (1st row): Hulette (child of Albert and Hulette); Mr. Barnett; Beatrice, Audrey, and Florence (children of Albert and Hulette); Mrs. Wells-Barnett; and Alfreda Marguerita.