Ida B. Wells: Immigrants In The Nineteenth Century
Plessy was arrested for sitting in the white section on a 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 trial. She had to move due to all the threats against her but she kept speaking her mind. It was 30 years before she could return.
Immigrants came to the United States in the nineteenth century
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 trial. She had to move due to all the threats against her but she kept speaking her mind. It was 30 years before she could return.
Immigrants came to the United States in the nineteenth century