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From the 19th century through today, Black women in the South are always leading NewsColony There’s example after example. After the Civil War in the late 19th century, Mississippi-born Ida B. Wells exposed the gruesome truth about widespread lynching of Black people in the South, using investigative journalism to drive social change. In the 20th century, Black women continued to push the country forward on issues of racial justice, gender justice, and economic justice, to name a few. While the history books give most of the credit to Martin Luther King, Jr., the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott that helped change the trajectory of civil rights was actually organized by a Black woman: Jo Ann Robinson , then-president of the Women’s Political Council. Determined to desegregate the city’s public transportation system, she mobilized Montgomery’s Black residents to boycott the buses after the arrest of Rosa Parks in 1955. Soon afterward in the early 1960s, prominent civil rig...