RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE END OF RECONSTRUCTION AND THE ELECTION OF 1876
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Dred Scott
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Ida B. Wells
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W.E.B. DuBois
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Detailed explanation-1: -She launched a campaign to publicize the horrors of lynching and began writing and lecturing about it across the country. She wrote two pamphlets, entitled A Red Record: Lynchings in the United States and Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases . In those works, she catalogued 241 lynchings.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ida B. Wells-Barnett, the fiery journalist, lecturer and civil rights militant, is best known for her tireless crusade against lynching and her fearless efforts to expose violence against blacks.
Detailed explanation-3: -1893-1894. Wells-Barnett published an impassioned editorial in the Free Speech newspaper on May 21, 1892, regarding the recent lynchings.
Detailed explanation-4: -Wells fought for equality for women and Black people until her death in 1931. But her legacy lives on, including through the writing of her great-granddaughter Michelle Duster, author of Ida in Her Own Words: The Timeless Writings of Ida B. Wells from 1893.