THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
AMERICAN ORGANIZED CRIME OF THE 1920S
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Staging a boycott of local restaurants that refused to serve African Americans
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Refusing to sit in the “Colored Only” section of a train
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Organizing a protest in Washington, D.C.
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Writing letters to Congress and the President complaining about segregation
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1884 twenty-two-year-old Wells defied Jim Crow laws by occupying a seat in the all white “ladies” coach of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. Informed by the conductor that as a black woman she could not sit in the car reserved for white females, Wells stood her ground and refused to move to the all black car.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -In 1883, Ida B. Wells traveled by train from Memphis to Woodstock, Tennessee, where she was working as a teacher. The conductor asked Wells to move to a different car because of her race. When she refused, she was removed from the train and sued the railroad company in 1884.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -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.