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📚 Ida B. Wells: How Evidence Challenged Lynching

Learn how Ida B. Wells tested the public explanations for lynching against case evidence and used journalism to expose racial terror.

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~10 min

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🏛️ History

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Adults

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What you’ll learn

Wells investigatesLearn how Ida B. Wells used case evidence to challenge the public justifications for racial terror lynching.Wells's anti-lynching journalism tested accusations against names, dates, patterns, and other available evidence. Her work made the difference between a claim and a supported account visible to readers.

Questions this course answers

What did Wells test in her anti-lynching writing?

Her reporting investigated individual cases and compared the justifications for lynching with evidence about what happened.

According to the Equal Justice Initiative, racial terror lynching was used mainly to:

EJI describes lynching as a widely supported campaign of terror used to enforce racial subordination and segregation, not simply as frontier justice.

Why is Wells's method important for a reader today?

The lesson's central practice is evidence-checking: a public explanation should not be accepted as a complete account of what happened.

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