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Virginia Brooks (January 11, 1886 - June 15, 1929) was a suffragette and political reformer who worked in the Chicago region and throughout Indiana in the early 1900s. Brooks penned two books, Little Lost Sister (1914) and My Battles with Vice (1915). Brooks spent time in Chicago throughout the 1910s working with different groups and political reformers. Brooks had a close relationship with Ida B. Wells, a suffragette, journalist, feminist, and prominent leader in Civil Rights Movement.

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Virginia Brooks (January 11, 1886 - June 15, 1929) was a suffragette and political reformer who worked in the Chicago region and throughout Indiana in the early 1900s. Brooks penned two books, Little Lost Sister (1914) and My Battles with Vice (1915). Brooks spent time in Chicago throughout the 1910s working with different groups and political reformers. Brooks had a close relationship with Ida B. Wells, a suffragette, journalist, feminist, and prominent leader in Civil Rights Movement.
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Virginia Brooks (1886-1929) was an American social and political reformist and suffragette. During the 1910s, she spent a lot of time in Chicago working with various political reforming groups and supporting women in prostitution, which earnt her the nickname the 'Joan of Arc of West Hammond'. She wrote two books: 'Little Lost Sister' (1914) and 'My Battles with Vice' (1915). She also had a close working relationship with the Civil Rights Movement leader Ida B. Wells.