THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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Wells wrote exposé reports about lynchings in the South and pushed for an end to race-based discrimination.
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Wells was the “Empress of the Blues”
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Wells was the most famous female jazz musician of the 1920s
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Wells was a wealthy speakeasy owner in New York
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -At the start of the “Roaring 20s, ” Ida B. Wells was a journalist, educator, author, suffragist, clubwoman, social reformer, leader in the anti-lynching movement, and a wife and mother.
Detailed explanation-3: -She asserted that lynching was “that last relic of barbarism and slavery.” Ida B. Wells’ pamphlets, including this one, helped alert the public to the rampant lynching of African Americans in the South.
Detailed explanation-4: -She became skeptical about the reasons black men were lynched and set out to investigate several cases. She published her findings in a pamphlet and wrote several columns in local newspapers. Her expose about an 1892 lynching enraged locals, who burned her press and drove her from Memphis.