Holly Springs, Mississippi
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Holly Springs is a city in and the county seat of Marshall County, Mississippi, United States, near the border with Tennessee to the north. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,968, down from 7
Business district of Holly Springs in 2007
Holly Springs railroad depot
Montrose, an antebellum mansion in Holly Springs
The Bolling–Gatewood House, home to Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells
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Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an American investigative journalist, sociologist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the A
Holly Springs, Mississippi
…Edward Cary Walthall (1831–1898), Confederate general, lawyer, and U.S. senator from Mississippi Ida B. Wells (1862–1931), African-American journalist, anti-lynching activist, and advocate for civil rights and women's rights; born in Holly Springs Absolom M…
Wells, c. 1893
The People's Grocery near Memphis, Tennessee, was a successful African-American cooperative. The 1892 lynchings of its owners led Wells to begin her investigations of lynching.
Attorney Ferdinand Lee Barnett (c. 1900). Wells married Barnett in 1895.