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Ida B. Wells

International High School at LafayetteBridges Team / Class: J

American History

Unit 6 American HerstoryMr. Joel

Akmal Khadjimukhamedov / Mei Mei


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Life Dates

She was born in Holly Springs. Mississippi in

July 16, 1862.

She died of uremia in Chicago on March 25,

1931, at the age of sixty-eight.


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Life Facts She born in a family of slave;

Her parents and 10 month old brother died from yellow

fever in 1878 when she was 16 years old; She had two sons and two daughters;

She was a anti-lynching crusader, suffragist, women's rights advocate/activist,

passionate crusader against racism, journalist, speaker, and co-founder of the

National Association of Colored Women and National Afro-American Council

(NAACP);

After being thrown from train on May 4, 1884 she started publish articles about

inequalities forThe Living Way weekly newspaper under the pen name Iola;

In 1889 she elected secretary ofNational Press Association;

1913-1916 she served as officerof the Chicago Supreme court;


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Historical Context After enact of the Jim Crow law white peoples started lynching black people becausethey were afraid to lose their power and economy.

Jim Crow law is local law by which African-American peoples lived with a supposedly

separate but equal status. They were relegated to the status of second class citizens.

Lynchingis illegal way of killing people by mob, mostly by hanging. She was inspired to search about lynching after three of her friends Moss, McDowell,

and Stewart were killed in jail by mob.

In 1889, she became co-owner and editor ofFree Speech and Headlight, an anti-

segregationist newspaper based at the Beale Street Baptist Church in Memphis that

published articles about racial injustice.

The Free Speech was destroyed on May 27, 1892.

In 1892 she published the book called Southern Horrors and in 1895 the book called

A Red Record on lynching.

In 1900, Wells published Mob Rule in New Orleans, a pamphlet that discusses the

lawlessness that pervades that city.

In 1901 she wrote book called Lynching and the Excuse for it.


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Quotation

Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour,

the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an

insane mob.

Lynch Law in America, January 1900

There is, therefore, only one thing left to do; save our money and leave a

town which will neither protect our lives and property, nor give us a fair

trial in the court, but takes us out and murder us in cold blood when

accused by white persons. The Free Speech, 1892

One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in

a trap.

Year 1913


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Unit Connection She inspired her daughter and others to continue her work.

To decide problems about lynching Ida B. Wells addresses all

problems about lynching and inequality in society to African-American peoples by newspapers and free speeches.

The actions of Ida B. Wells bring big changes on society and on

life of African-Americans in 1800 and she saved hundreds of life

from being lynching.

She was a fearless woman. She took actions against whitepeople. She did not afraid from being lynching or assassinated.

Chicago named her one of 25 outstanding women in the citys

history.


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Class Question What you would do if your friends were

lynched or they were in danger of lynching?

Would the lynching decrease without Ida B.Wells' struggle? Why or Why not?

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