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Speech critique on Ida Wells-Barnett's speech, "Lynch Laws in America". Includes brief biography on Wells-Barnett, summary and analysis of speech.
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 02:50:11
Ida Wells-Barnett and Lynch Laws.
Ida Wells-Barnett was born in 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi to slave par-ents and in her sixty-nine years of life, accomplished a great many things.
Remembered as the legendary anti-lynching crusader and militant journalist, she became a teacher at the young age of fourteen to support her siblings after the loss of their parents to the yellow fever epidemic. With the termination of her em-ployment at the public school, Wells-Barnett began …
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…an ac-tive role in aiding her in her fight to outlaw lynching.
With the support and assistance of those who heard and were affected by the words of her speech, Wells-Barnett's goal of persuading Congress to pass a lynch law, where the lynch mobs are persecuted, would be one step closer to becoming a reality.
Bibliography:
Guy-Sheftall, Beverly (Eds.). (1995). Words of Fire. New York: The New Press.
Wells-Barnett, Ida (1900). Lynch Law in America. pages 69-76
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