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• Ida B. Wells became famous for taking on racism in the South with powerful reporting. Yet her death went unremarked in The Times, until now. She’s just one of the many remarkable women profiled in our new series Overlooked.
• Ms. Padnani describes how the project came to be.
• You can use this form to nominate candidates for future obituaries.
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