In "The Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells," she proclaims the injustice of lynching of the black man very strongly. The University of Chicago Press published this excerpt and they gave permission for it to be published by, "Voices for Freedom." Ida B. Wells was the editor of the Memphis Free Press newspaper; Wells is very upset about the lynching in 1892 of eight black men. She stands up to be the voice for these eight men through her newspaper. She is has a very strong opinion about the lynching and she eventually becomes an anti-lynching activist. The main theme Wells carries throughout the document is justice for those lynched who shouldn't have been even if they are already dead and strength in standing up for what she believes in. .
In this excerpt Ida B. Wells brings attention to three black men that owned and operated the grocery store, Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell, and Henry Stewart. They tried to change the monopoly economy that the white grocery store owner had created within the "thickly populated suburb" (pg. 60). On a night of threatened attack on the colored grocery store men stood guard and shot at whoever tried to attack. Eventually the three men were imprisoned and then controlled by the white men in prison and then eventually lynched. These three men were charged with killing white men, but the other five men that had been lynched because they "raped white women." These five cases of lynching were the ones that Wells was most disappointed about. Wells thinks that the accusation of raping white women is a "bare-lie" and that they were killed unjustly. She used her newspaper to spread the word about these lynchings. The word eventually made it to states where lynching had never taken place after Wells' newspaper was taken down but white people who did not like what she was writing about. She shows a lot of strength after her newspaper is shut down.
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