PolitiFact rated the claim “"Ida B. Wells refused to give up her seat 71 years before Rosa Parks did. At age 33, she owned the first African-American newspaper in Chicago, the Chicago Conservator. Why do you never hear about her? Because she was a Republican."” Half True.
Shown as reported and rated by a fact checker, not as an established fact.
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