Summary Of The Tragedy Of The Negro In America By Ida B. Wells

During the time of lynching, two black writers, Ida B. Wells and Thomas Stanford had conveyed their ideas through the writings in hope of a healthy public opinion. Ida B. Wells had written the pamphlet Lynch Law in Georgia, and Thomas Stanford had written The Tragedy of the Negro in America. In Lynch Law in Georgia, Wells utilized the reporting of Atlanta newspapers to create her own case. She included detective accounts within the pamphlet that compares to the newspaper reports. Within Stanford’s writing, he had provided the reader with reasonings behind the lynchings. These two writings show how the local law enforcements were unwilling and incapable of prosecuting the lynchers.
Ida B. Wells was a young African American school teacher in Memphis. In 1884, Wells was reading a book while riding in a first-class
Some would find a way to blame an African American with a crime to give a reasoning for the lynching. In 1886, an African American woman cook was lynched because a white woman was poised. What led people to believe the cook had been the one to do the act was the fact that there was a box of rat poison in her room. Once the box was found, she was thrown in jail without a trail. A mob soon forcefully took her where she could be seen to the public and was lynched.140 Another lynching happened because a white woman claimed that she had been raped by an African American. Without trail, he was taken to jail and was soon lynched by a mob. If a white man had raped an African American woman, then not a single person would have thought anything of it. Other lynchings occurred due to the fact that the mob believed the African American had lived long enough. There was no true reasoning for these people to be murdered, other than the fact of the white population wanting to get rid of the African American