RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Reporting on racial injustices
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Agreement with W.E.B. Du Bois that the problems of racial inequality were too urgent to postpone
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Efforts to end lynching of African-Americans
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Support for segregation of African-American communities
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Detailed explanation-1: -In Chicago, Ida Wells first attacked the exclusion of Black people from the Chicago World’s Fair, writing a pamphlet sponsored by Frederick Douglas and others. She continued her anti-lynching campaign and began to work tirelessly against segregation and for women’s suffrage.
Detailed explanation-2: -Significance: African-American journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. She also fought for woman suffrage.
Detailed explanation-3: -Wells was an African-American journalist and early civil rights activist. Her activism began when she led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s.
Detailed explanation-4: -Wells, who was born a slave in Holly Springs, Mississippi, in 1862, was a prolific investigative journalist and suffragist who campaigned tirelessly for anti-lynching legislation. Her activism began in 1884, when she refused to give up her train car seat, leading to a successful lawsuit against the train company.