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    The Rope review: Ida Wells, the NAACP and a slim thread to a murder

    Feb 20, 2021 3 minutes

    This is a book about an important and long-overlooked Black woman civil rights leader, and an intrepid New York City private investigator who solved a murder at the seashore in New Jersey in which a Black laborer was wrongly accused of the crime.

    “The moral audacity and persistence” of Ida B Wells and Raymond Schindler are Alex Tresniowski’s subjects, together with the virulent racism that prevailed from Tennessee to the New Jersey shore

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