have included suspicion of black people murdering white people‚ or raping white women. The only punishment that was given to black people was lynching‚ which meant hanging them without facing a trial to clear them. Many people attended these including families with young children. This was America at its worst in treating others with respect. The lynching at the time has been described as shameful to the pride of
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On Civil Rights Activists W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells-Barnett On December 18‚ 1865‚ in Washington‚ D.C.‚ then U.S. Secretary of State William Seward made the formal proclamation of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to be law‚ thus formally abolishing slavery in the United States. However‚ for newly-freed African-Americans in the U.S.‚ the excruciating uphill battle for equal rights throughout the country had just started. While Reconstruction had the initial promise of integrating
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Lana Cox History 121 Professor Adejumobi November 7‚ 2008 Critical Book Review THEY SAY: IDA B. WELLS AND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF RACE By James West Davidson Ida B. Wells‚ an African-American woman‚ and feminist‚ shaped the image of empowerment and citizenship during post-reconstruction times. The essays‚ books‚ and newspaper articles she wrote‚ instigated the dialogue of race struggles between whites and blacks‚ while her personal narratives‚ including two diaries‚ a travel journal‚ and an
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the Union to withdraw its forces.1 The southern legislatures even passed laws such as the Mississippi Black Code‚ which prevented interracial marriage‚ court access for blacks‚ introduced vagrancy laws‚ and promoted the formation of vigilante and lynching groups. There
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recognition in the public for her writings about her experience and soon got an editorial job for a paper. She eventually became co-owner of the Free Speech Newspaper in Memphis where she became even more known for her investigative journalism on the lynchings of black men in the South. (Wikipedia.org) By the time that Ida B. Wells came along‚ the nation‚ in theory‚ had solved the issue of racism. The civil war was over‚ and the fourteenth amendment and the emancipation proclamation were in effect
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African Americans. The text can therefor be divided into 3 main parts: The story of Eula Biss’ personal life‚ who‚ as a kid‚ (Page 6‚ L‚ 141) “they believed that the telephone itself was a miracle”‚ the invention of the telephone and the story of the lynchings which happened (Page 4‚ L‚ 78) “from the middle of the nineteenth century to the middle of the
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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 Biography Ida B. Wells was born a slave in 1862 in Holly Springs‚ Missouri. She is the oldest daughter of James and Lizzie Wells. The Wells family along with all other slaves were freed six months after Ida’s birth thanks to the Emancipation Proclamation. The Wells family received lots of racial prejudice living in Mississippi. They were restricted by racial rules and practices. James Wells served on the board of trustees for Rust College and made education a priority for his seven
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CElaine Church History 151 Midterm #1 The Compromise of 1877 The Compromise of 1877 marked the dawn of a new era in American History. Most events after the compromise‚ decades down the road‚ are direct results of the compromise. Specifically blacks were most affected by this. Rights they were promised when they fought with the north in the civil war were gone. The rights were not taken away per say‚ but simply not enforced. The compromise that most likely saved the nation from breaking back
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The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was growing in the Midwest‚ South‚ and creating areas of influence in other regions like the North and West. This led a handful of progressive white social activists to start talking with African American leaders about change. Prior to the Springfield riots‚ there were attempts to protect and advance African Americans. The Niagara Movement was started four years before the NAACP by about thirty African American professionals most notably‚ Dr. W.E.B DuBois. Their objective
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