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A live performance from Women in History of this brave and remarkable civil rights crusader.
When a respected black store owner and friend of Ida B. Wells Barnett was lynched in 1892, she used her newspaper to attack the evils of lynching. Ms. Barnett published the first statistics of lynching in the South. She was a founding member of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), the oldest civil rights organization in the country. Wells Barnett continued her tireless crusade for equal rights for African-Americans until her death in 1931.
Sponsored by the Friends of Brecksville Library.
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The Brecksville Branch is conveniently located across the street from the Brecksville Community Center and the Kids Quarters playground area. In 2006, the branch suffered extensive flood damage that required the building to be closed for nearly six months while repairs were made. The newly remodeled building reopened on January 14, 2007.