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started a #wikipedia article on Indianapolis teacher, suffragist, Carrie Barnes Ross (1880s-1918): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Barnes_Ross She was president of a Black women's suffrage organization called Branch No. 7 from 1912 to 1916; she died from birth complications in her 30s. @wikiwomeninred #BlackHistoryMonth #Suffrage #Indianapolis @teacherscollege #Denver #Boston Her image is now featured in a mural at Indianapolis's Bicentennial Unity Plaza.

Photograph of a Black woman in about 1909, dark hair parted center and dressed back to the nape, wearing a high-collared white lacy blouse

Clipping from 1918 newspaper, "A Brilliant Denver Girl Dies. Mrs. Carrie Barnes-Ross, who, only last year, married Dr. Ross, a prominent doctor in Boston, Mass., in Indianapolis, Ind., suddenly died after a brief illness in Boston, her home. Dr. and Mrs. Ross were only recently blessed with a fine, bouncing 10-lb. boy. The sad intelligence came suddenly to her mother living at her home at 775 Franklin St., Sunday afternoon. Everyone knew of the wonderful record and achievement made by both Miss Pearl and Carrie Barnes while in Denver, and no finer set of girls ever lived better and more refined than they. Mrs. Ross was an active suffragette, and one of the pioneers in Indiana who can honestly claim honor for helping Indiana to vote her women suffrage. She leaves a mother, sister and uncle. besides her deeply-bereaved husband to mourn her loss."

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