Ida B. Well Comic Strip
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- Background Context
- Historical Context
- He has no right to trial by jury!
- Activism
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett was born on July 16, 1862 in rural Mississippi. Ida was born to her two parents, James and Lizzie Wells. Unfortunately, at age 16 Ida became an orphan after losing her two parents and younger brother to the yellow fever epidemic. Ida and the rest of her siblings relied on their grandmother to keep the family together.
- Lynching Speech
- In 1900, there was an “unwritten” law which was the Lynch Law of America. This unspoken, unwritten law justified “putting human beings to death without compliant under oath, without trial by jury, without opportunity to make defense, and without right of appeal…”
- Exposing the Facts
- With age, Ida B. Wells became a pioneering activist and journalists who would “expose the epidemic of lynching in the United States.”
- Summary
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett spoke out against hanging as the national crime in her lynching speech. She showed how it was planned, racist, and used false reasons to cover up crimes against women. She pointed out that both the government and the people are involved in keeping this violence going.
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett's speech demonstrates how lynching in the US was planned and organized, based on racism, false charges, and violence, mostly against African Americans, even though it was said to be for the protection of women.
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett's speech exposes the systematic and deliberate nature of lynching in the United States, revealing its basis in racism, false accusations, and brutality, particularly against African Americans, despite claims of protecting women.
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