History of the United States II / Unit 6 USH2 0773 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Ida B. Wells
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The idea
Ida B. Wells, born in the last years of slavery, became a pioneering campaigner against lynching after a mob killed three of her friends in Memphis in eighteen ninety-two.
In practice
Wells documenting lynchings and exposing the false charges used to justify them.
Where people slip
The Yawp says she saw her campaign as a kind of anti-imperialist activism. She later helped found the NAACP.
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