African American History

 

Q1: What are the 2 ways mentioned that Mrs. Ida B. Wells responded to discrimination on the train? Please explain in detail.
A1:Well the first way she responded to the discrimination on the train is that she was not going to get up she said that "I refused", second way is that after the fact she followed up by immediately hired an attorney to sue the railroad.

Q2: Why were Wells' three friends lynched? How did the African American community respond?
A2:Her three friend where lynched because they where owners of People's Grocery Company, and their small grocery had taken away customers from competing white businesses. The Black community organized a boycott of white owned business to try to stem the terror of lynchings

Q3: How did Wells continue her anti-lynching crusade in Chicago?
A3:Wells was one of the founding members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

Q4: Well's was the first Black woman to do what?
A4: She was one of two African American women to sign "the call" to form the NAACP in 1909.

 

1.Bennie Simmons, alive, soaked in coal oil before being set on fire.  June 13, 1913. Anadarko, Oklahoma.accused of the murder of sixteen-year old

2. Castenego Ficarrotta and Angelo Albano, handcuffed together, hanging in a Florida swamp.  One with note affixed to feet, the other with pipe in mouth.  September 9, 1910.were accused of union sympathy and of shooting J. F. Esterling, a bookkeeper for the West Tampa cigar factory.  

3. Allen Brooks hanging from Elk's Arch, surrounded by spectators.  March 3, 1910.   Dallas, Texas. claimed to have discovered Brooks with their missing three-year old daughter in the barn.

4. The corpses of five African American males, Nease Gillepsie, John Gillepsie, "Jack" Dillingham, Henry Lee, and George Irwin with onlookers. August 6, 1906.  Salisbury, North Carolina.hey accused the men of murdering members of a local family, named Lyerly. 

5.Dick Robinson and a man named Thompson. October 6, 1906, Pritchard Station, Alabama. murder of Officer Roy Hole.

6.Burning of John Lee. August 13, 1911, Durant, Oklahoma. Lee was accused of a range of crimes, the most serious of which was the critical wounding of a white woman, Mrs. Redden Campbell.