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Ida B . Wells vs Lynching

Ida B. Wells was a women who was from Holly Springs, Mississippi. Ida was a fearless anti-lynching crusader, suffragist, women's rights advocate, journalist, and speaker. She had many roles as far being an activist in her time. In In 1884 she was asked by the conductor of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company to give up her seat on the train to a white man and move to sit in a area that was already crowded with people the name of the bed on the train was the "Jim Crow". Ida refused and bite one of the white men on the wrist and it basically led to her being threw off the train by another six white men while the other white passengers on the train applauded. As soon as Ida returned to Memphis she hired an attorney to sue the train company. Winning  the local court appeals in the lower level courts in Tennessee  Ida had gained some recognition and her career as a journalist had began to sparkle.

The case was then seen by the white Supreme court which is the highest level and it reversed the lower court's ruling. From there on Ida fought fearlessly for her rights against women and people of color. Sooner then later Ida teamed up with the "Free Speech and Headlight" news paper company ran by  Rev. R. Nightingale who was the pastor of Beale street Baptist church.

IDA'S FREINDS BEING LYNCHED

In 1892 three of her friends were lynched. Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell, and Henry Stewart. Ida and her friends were owners of some local grocery stores in which they seemed to be having success. Taking the customers of other white grocery store owners the whites had responded to the issue by attacking the blacks and in result a white was shot by a black store owner. Taken to jail the lynch mob broke into the prison and hung Ida's friends. Ida took her voice and fight for equal rights for women and blacks to other members of the Black community organized a boycott of white owned business to try to stem the terror of lynchings. Her newspaper office was destroyed as a result of the investigative journalism she pursued after the killing of her three friends. She could not return to Memphis, so she moved to Chicago. She however continued her blistering journalistic attacks on Southern injustices, being especially active in investigating and exposing the fraudulent "reasons" given to lynch Black men, which by now had become a current thing that was seen. Ida became one of the first black women to be called on by the legendary NAACP