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Mar 3, 2023 · Ida B Wells’ 1892 lynch law speech—an introduction. Born into slavery, journalist Ida B. Wells grew up in the South and intended to stay there, believing that with rising wealth and education, thrift, and economy — the doctrine of self-help — Blacks would be accepted into the wider American culture. But everything changed for her in ...
Dear Miss Wells: Let me give you thanks for your faithful paper on the lynch abomination now generally practiced against colored people in the South. There has been no word equal to it in convincing power. I have spoken, but my word is feeble in comparison. You give us what you know and testify from actual knowledge.
ida b. wells, “lynch law in all its phases” (13 february 1893) [1] I am before the American people to-day through no inclination of my own, but because of a deep-seated conviction that the country at large does not know the extent to which lynch law prevails in parts of the Republic, nor the conditions which force into exile those who speak ...
Mar 5, 2021 · Wells assembled a uniquely vivid, factual, and coherent portrait of the practice in America—the first fully contextualized analysis of lynching, and of the willful indifference of white law authorities to it, as seen from the side of the victims.
Wells’ argument as to why black people in the South were so targeted and the consequences of lynching that, essentially, let whites take the law into their own hands. The Black and White of It
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Ida B. Wells’ pamphlets, including this one, helped alert the public to the rampant lynching of African Americans in the South. In 1898, Wells went to Washington, DC, to implore President William McKinley to institute reforms against lynching and discrimination.
Jun 2, 2022 · Wells was one of the first civil rights activists to understand that the hateful words of white people, especially pompous Southern officials and newspaper publishers, cited verbatim, worked as effective propaganda, depreciating the offender’s voice as it highlighted the reasonableness of her own.
