Analyze Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 ('separate but equal') + Harlan dissent + Jim Crow segregation + Ida B. Wells Southern Horrors 1892 + A Red Record 1895 + EJI 2017 Lynching in America (4,400+ lynchings 1877-1950) + Booker T. Washington Atlanta Compromise 1895 + W.E.B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk 1903 + Black colleges 1865-1900 + NACW 1896
Exercise
Difficulty 2
~5 min
hist.g8.f.ex_43
Short Answer
Prompt
When + why was Ida B. Wells's Memphis Free Speech printing press destroyed?
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- May 1892
- After Wells investigated and published response to lynching of Black grocer friends Tom Moss + Calvin McDowell + Will Stewart (March 9 1892, People's Grocery)
- White mob destroyed Free Speech press; Wells exiled North
Hints
- Wells's investigation linked lynchings to economic competition, not 'rape of white women' as white press claimed.
- Wells published Southern Horrors Oct 1892 in NY exile.
Misconceptions to watch
- Confusing Memphis Free Speech destruction with later New York Age work
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