“Race Woman,” and “Crusade for Justice:
The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”
“Lynching is the illegal execution of an accused person by a mob”
“This was usually a form of punishment by the whites against the African Slaves”
‘Whites who protested against this were also in danger of being lynched”
1. During the late 1800's, violence against blacks increased at high rates and mob rule was becoming the norm.During 1892, white men were dominant and superior compared to Black men. The tension arising from a Black mans success of his grocery store lead white men angry due to black men taking away their wealth and leaving them looking as fools. This was not acceptable by the white men because they believed they were better than the Black and the angry that the black men were taking away their customers. In result would do anything in their power to eliminate an innocent individual.. Therefore, once the white men realized that Thomas Moss was succeeding with his grocery store and taking away their business, the white men could not live to see this happen so they took action and consequently the end result was Thomas Moss and two other owners lynched.
2. White men were dominant and wanted to keep it that way so for any black man who tried to get in their way they would be taken care of .The opinion on lynching from the white’s point of view was that African slaves who committed a crime should be punished in order to teach them a lesson. Although, Incidences which were not even their fault, for example a white women falling in love with a black man would consequently leave a black man lynched since the assumption of white men was that “a white women could never fall in love with a black man, rather the black man raped or forced her to. Therefore, many times the white’s just wanted to stay dominant and black men succeeding feared them so through selfishness they would result it in lynching. Wells was determined to challenge their opinions by contradicting that Black slaves did not need to be punished by lynching, never the less for acts that they did not commit. She wanted to challenge that white men and women committee the same crimes, yet don’t get punished. She started by organizing an anti- lynching campaign. She gave public speeches against lynching and wrote editorials against lynching. Moreover, she was later given $500 dollars to instigate the history of African slave Lynching and she came to find that black slaves were” murdered for not paying a debt, disrespecting whites, testifying in court, stealing hogs, and public drunkenness “which white men also committed yet were not punished. Also through her investigation she found that 1/3 of the charges against the black men were of “rape” of white women. This was justified by the white men as protecting “white womanhood” when in fact many cases it was white women drawn to the black men. Thus Wells wanted to also challenge the fact that black men were not “ raping” the white women, yet the white women were with the black men with their own will.
3. White men were dominant, as I mentioned before so they had power to do as they pleased. Their social status was on top of the pyramid compared to the black men which were all the way on the bottom. They used black women as toys and never treated them as human beings since they were more superior. Raping black women was just another way of showing they had the power to do as they pleased without punishment just to show where they stand at the top of the hierarchy. Black men were as dirt for white men and couldn’t accept the fact that white women would fall in love with black men since they were looked upon as slaves. Therefore, white men wanted to secure their reputation by murdering black men who came in contact with white women by declaring it “rape”. White men had too much pride and to accept the fact that white women would fall in love with a black man would just leave them in shame and would take away their reputation as the highest social class.
The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”
“Lynching is the illegal execution of an accused person by a mob”
“This was usually a form of punishment by the whites against the African Slaves”
‘Whites who protested against this were also in danger of being lynched”
1. During the late 1800's, violence against blacks increased at high rates and mob rule was becoming the norm.During 1892, white men were dominant and superior compared to Black men. The tension arising from a Black mans success of his grocery store lead white men angry due to black men taking away their wealth and leaving them looking as fools. This was not acceptable by the white men because they believed they were better than the Black and the angry that the black men were taking away their customers. In result would do anything in their power to eliminate an innocent individual.. Therefore, once the white men realized that Thomas Moss was succeeding with his grocery store and taking away their business, the white men could not live to see this happen so they took action and consequently the end result was Thomas Moss and two other owners lynched.
2. White men were dominant and wanted to keep it that way so for any black man who tried to get in their way they would be taken care of .The opinion on lynching from the white’s point of view was that African slaves who committed a crime should be punished in order to teach them a lesson. Although, Incidences which were not even their fault, for example a white women falling in love with a black man would consequently leave a black man lynched since the assumption of white men was that “a white women could never fall in love with a black man, rather the black man raped or forced her to. Therefore, many times the white’s just wanted to stay dominant and black men succeeding feared them so through selfishness they would result it in lynching. Wells was determined to challenge their opinions by contradicting that Black slaves did not need to be punished by lynching, never the less for acts that they did not commit. She wanted to challenge that white men and women committee the same crimes, yet don’t get punished. She started by organizing an anti- lynching campaign. She gave public speeches against lynching and wrote editorials against lynching. Moreover, she was later given $500 dollars to instigate the history of African slave Lynching and she came to find that black slaves were” murdered for not paying a debt, disrespecting whites, testifying in court, stealing hogs, and public drunkenness “which white men also committed yet were not punished. Also through her investigation she found that 1/3 of the charges against the black men were of “rape” of white women. This was justified by the white men as protecting “white womanhood” when in fact many cases it was white women drawn to the black men. Thus Wells wanted to also challenge the fact that black men were not “ raping” the white women, yet the white women were with the black men with their own will.
3. White men were dominant, as I mentioned before so they had power to do as they pleased. Their social status was on top of the pyramid compared to the black men which were all the way on the bottom. They used black women as toys and never treated them as human beings since they were more superior. Raping black women was just another way of showing they had the power to do as they pleased without punishment just to show where they stand at the top of the hierarchy. Black men were as dirt for white men and couldn’t accept the fact that white women would fall in love with black men since they were looked upon as slaves. Therefore, white men wanted to secure their reputation by murdering black men who came in contact with white women by declaring it “rape”. White men had too much pride and to accept the fact that white women would fall in love with a black man would just leave them in shame and would take away their reputation as the highest social class.
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