Mrs. Ida B Wells & Lynching

Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Discrimination on the train - Ida was being forced off the train and responded by standing her ground and biting the man who made the attempt to remover her. When she got back to Memphis she filed a law suit and sued the railroad company.
Lynching of her 3 friends - In 1892 3 of Mrs. Wells friends were lynched because they had a small grocery store and it was competing with white business.The African-Americans responded by saying that they were outnumbered and without arms so the only thing to do is save money and leave.
Anti-Lynching Crusade in Chicago - Wells' helped develop many organizations in Chicago and worked for suffrage for women and marched for universal suffrage in 1913.
NAACP - Ida was the first woman to sign "the call" to form the NAACP in 1909.

Lynchings

1. Leo Frank was lynched on August 17, 1915 in Atlanta, Georgia. He was lynched for murder
2. Joseph Richardson was lynched on September 26, 1913 in Leitchfield, Kentucky. He was lynched for assaulting an 11-year-old white girl
3. Clyde Johnson was lynched on August 3, 1935 in Yreka, California. He was lynched for the murder of Oregon's chief of police.
4. Charles Mitchell was lynched on June 4, 1897 in Urbana, Ohio. He was lynched for robbery to rape.
5. Virgil Jones, Robert Jones (6), Thomas Jones (7), and Joseph Riley (8) were lynched on July 31, 1908 in Russelville, Kentucky. They were lynched for disturbing the peace, discontentment with their employers, and whites feared they were planning assassinations.