She proved the innocence of victims.
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett gained a national reputation in the 1890s as a pioneering crusader against lynching. Her long career spanned a wide variety of venues, including schoolroom, settlement house, municipal court, electoral politics, home, church, and social club. Journalism, however, was her calling. Her publications, many of them too militant or sharply worded to find a substantial receptive audience, remain her greatest legacy.
William Randolph Hearst
Orson Wells
The World's Work ended in 1932.
Between the end of the US Civil War and the 1950s, lynchings of blacks for racial reasons were more likely to occur in the states of the former Confederacy. However, they could also occur in other parts of the country, especially through the 1920s or 1930s.
She proved the innocence of victims.
She is important because she ended lynching in the south. Her work proved that lynching needed to end inside the south forever
She proved the innocence of victims.
She proved the innocence of victims.
Wells.
Wells.
Ida B Wells is so important because she shared to us about how African Americans were trated back then and she need to share it to the world and to educate the kids about then and how she felt........
Congressman Leonidas C. Dyer fought to end lynching. He proposed the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill in 1918, which passed the US House of Representatives in 1922.
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett gained a national reputation in the 1890s as a pioneering crusader against lynching. Her long career spanned a wide variety of venues, including schoolroom, settlement house, municipal court, electoral politics, home, church, and social club. Journalism, however, was her calling. Her publications, many of them too militant or sharply worded to find a substantial receptive audience, remain her greatest legacy.
William Randolph Hearst
Wells' Regiment of Militia ended in 1777.
Malvern Wells railway station ended in 1965.