Ida B. Wells is one of the most important African American of all times. Her struggles to put a stop to lynching were very significant. Her strategies for combating lynching were to use reverse psychology on the white newspaper reporters and the white community. In doing so, she often quoted the white man’s statements and opinions and opposed them in her own writings. Voicing her own opinion gave her much respect in the African American community, but most of the white population (race) envied her for it. Though, there were some whites that opposed lynching as well.
“Lynching was not simply a spontaneous punishment for crimes but an act of terror perpetrated against a race of people in order to ma
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