1. Writing to Unite the Races
Ida B Wells, a southern born journalist, wrote "A Red Record" to inform her Northern readers about southern lynching in a way that would inspire them take action. ... Her neutral strategy played to her advantage because neutrality does not warrant as much conflict as a more bashful article would. ... Wells wrote this article in 1894, and at this point there was lynching going on all over the country. ... Washington played on a paternal attitude that white southerners had toward black people; when he said the south is the best place for black people to enter the economy. ... Secondl...
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