Ida B. Wells was a woman dedicated to a cause‚ a cause to prevent hundreds of thousands of people from being murdered by lynching. Lynching is defined as to take the law into its own hands and kill someone in punishment for a crime or a presumed crime. Ida B. Wells’ back round made her a logical spokesperson against lynching. She drew on many experiences throughout her life to aid in her crusade. Her position as a black woman‚ however‚ affected her credibility both in and out of America
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Ida B. Wells was born a slave on July 16‚ 1862. She lived in Holly Springs‚ Mississippi with her "parents" James and Elizabeth (Warrenton) Wells. They had a family that consists of four boys and four girls. Unfortunately he died in Chicago‚ Illinois in 1931 at 69 because of kidney disease. Wells was one of 11 Tennesseans depicted bicentennial portrait and founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She was a hard working teacher and she only got $25 a month
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Ida B. Wells was born in Holly Springs‚ Mississippi‚ on July 16th‚ 1862. She was born a slave‚ and was the oldest daughter of James and Lizzie Wells. Just six months after her birth‚ the slaves in the Confederate states were declared free by the Union‚ but this did not stop the racial prejudices and discriminatory laws that continued to restrict their freedoms. During Reconstruction‚ her parents were active in the Republican Party. Her father helped start Shaw University‚ a school for newly freed
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included women and children. The practice of lynching began long before the Civil War‚ but during the years of Reconstruction‚ lynching was one way in which whites terrorized blacks in an attempt to maintain the status quo in terms of economic‚ social‚ and political oppression. Many blacks in the American South lived their daily existence with the threat of being lynched at the whim of Southern white men. Under the pretext of the protection
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Lynching‚ for many‚ served as a purpose to preserve or reclaim white sovereignty. After the Civil War blacks became free‚ the fear of Negro supremacy ascended. The once sub humans had gained the right to vote‚ to be equivalent to the white man‚ and to obtain citizenship. Foremost‚ whites felt susceptible by a rise in black prominence and believed that lynching would terrorize blacks into remaining subservient while allowing whites to regain their sense of status (Lynching). Even though lynching was
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Crow Laws was lynching‚ whose horrors were brought into light by political activist‚ Ida B Wells‚ in her 1900 speech in Chicago‚ “Lynch Law in America”. In the speech‚ Wells explains that soon after the Civil War‚ “lynchings began...rapidly spreading into...various States until...the reign of the ‘unwritten law’ was supreme‚” (4). In other words‚ whites‚ shielded by state legislators‚ had the right to kill blacks for even minute (often non-existent) crimes. Yet‚ even though lynching was outlawed with
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Ida B. Wells is one of the most iconic African American women reformists that boldly challenged social injustices and demand for equality. She was raised in Holy Springs‚ Mississippi that was freed from slavery through the Emancipation Proclamation. Granted educational opportunities her enthusiasm to learn and the search for the truth grew which led her to many achievements on being a teacher‚ businesswomen‚ newspaper columnist‚ and investigative journalist. The best achievement though was her international
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train. He argued the arrest violated his rights under the 14th amendment and the law he broke was unconstitutional. The court ruled 8 to 1 that segregation laws were constitutional. Ida B. Wells was a courageous woman. She stood up for what she believed in regardless of the dangers she faced. She wrote about lynching and why it was wrong. She used her writing skills to bring attention to it in the United States and in England. She said there was no point to have government if you couldn’t get a fair
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What were lynchings in the South‚ and how did the southern police deal with it? Lynching was a way to kill those who were not white and those who opposed white supremacist views. It was a means to kill someone (mostly by hanging) for an alleged offense with/ without a legal trial. The points that will be addressed include facts about lynching in the south‚ crimes that led to being lynched‚ and what southern police did about it. When the South lost to the Norht during the Civil War‚ lynching became a
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such leaders who helped shape the political discourse were Ida B. Wells and Booker T. Washington. Urging politically divergent approaches‚ they both wanted African American people and men in particular‚ to be valued and respected by the white south. However‚ they differed significantly in the means by which they believed such change would come about. Ida B. Wells told the truth in a way that made many whites uncomfortable‚ addressing lynching and other racially motivated atrocities directly and proposing
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