During the 1st Wave of the Feminist Movement, that began in 1848, one of the biggest issues was attaining the right to vote or suffrage. During this time another huge issue was that of the treatment of African Americans in the country. One of the influential women that fought for both the women’s movement and abolitionist movement during the 1st Wave was Ida B. Wells. Ida B. Wells, an African American woman, born in 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi to parents who were former slaves that were very active in the Republican Party during Reconstruction. Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation had not had any effect on their lives until 1863. The Well’s family had a pretty comfortable life after the end of slavery. Her father was a carpenter and her mother was a cook for a while …show more content…
Wells was heavily influenced to continue her fight for people in her community upon hearing of the 3 black men who owned a grocery store and were tried initially because a white owner did not like the competition and had them tried as a public nuisance. They were later lynched by a white mob. Wells wrote on the injustice and later wrote on the unfair conditions of black women and wanted to be treated as an equal leader amongst men. She wrote on how disappointing the circumstances were for black women in the South as there was, “wholesale contemptuous defamation of their women.” (Adams, 1994) Ultimately referring to the unfair circumstances that were demeaning to the women in the community and the lack of representation or voice that was given to them. Overall, through her editorials and pieces Wells stirred a lot of anger amongst whites at the time as she was said to “not know her place” in society. In doing so she put herself at risk as a person of color and a woman nonetheless. Regardless of her race and gender she made a difference as an established black
By doing this she explains the different value that black women had before and after
Wells was also able to change America morally, since people were able to realize how unethical lynching was, there was a rise in followers of the anti-lynching campaign. “ an increasing number of white women, especially in the south, joined the anti-lynching movement. Revolted by the brutality of lynching…” (Dickinson D. Bruce, jr.). Another way she morally changed America was by the increasing numbers of organizations forming to end lynching.
During the 90s of the nineteenth century hundreds of African Americans were persecuted and lynched regardless if they committed a crime or not. These atrocities got the attention with major African American leaders and writers including Ida B. Wells. She wrote a pamphlet called Southern Horrors, an autobiography detailing the many accounts of lynching used during her time. Wells even went to England, Scotland, and Wales to appeal to the people against lynching by making speeches and meeting with leaders to help ease the burden of colored people and stop lynching. To convince her audience, she recalled several primary sources from accounts of lynchings and court records, even going to the United Kingdom to make speeches to help her cause.
“Richmond “director of the “Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation.” Ida B. Wells came about several civil rights organizations. Making society what it is today. Their philosophies compare with all 3 women Addams, Richmond, and Wells fight for the right of women.
Susan B. Anthony was born into a Quaker family, with the hope that everyone would one day be treated equal. She denied a chance to speak at a temperance convention because she was a woman(Susan B. Anthony). From this point on, she knew that she needed to make a change. Susan B. Anthony, because of her intense work involving women 's’ rights, highly influenced all of the societies and beliefs that were yet to come. She employed a huge role in our history because of the fact that she advocated for women’s rights, for the integration of women in the workforce, and for the abolition of slavery.
Williams had stood for an ideal of self-defense instead of the usual nonviolence. This situation showed how racism has chained African Americans to silence. This was show with the abuse that the African American woman had experienced but nobody had come to help
Miss Well’s Plea for the Negro”). Clearly the author is writing a more unbiased version of Wells, but still maintains a level of respect for her and her
During the Reconstruction era, black men and women faced abuse and poor treatment done by white men and women. Ida B. Wells, a young journalist, who was a black women, investigated and spread the news about the violence that was done to blacks during the reconstruction era and after. Wells wanted to spread the news because “that was the first step is to tell the world the facts (27).” She told news of such horrors blacks faced to gained freedom for her race and to end the segregation. The statistics she used and the real stories around the country was phenomenal.
Wells also found that white were rarely lynched even though they committed a crime. She found out that lynching become an entertainment for people in the South. When an African-American were about to lynched, it was announced on the newspaper for people to come and watch, even children can go and cheer for it.
The Second Great Awakening was extremely influential in shifting the minds towards reform in people across America. The mentality of the people at this time was closed minded and had acceoted their way of living. Among other factors, Charles Finney played and important role in the success of the Second Great Awakening. “Much of the impulse towards reform was rooted in the revivals of the broad religious movement that swept the Untied States after 1790.” Revivals during the Second Great Awakening awakened the faith of people during the 1790s with emotional preaching and strategic actions from Charles Finney and many other influential preachers, which later helped influence the reforms of the mid-1800s throughout America.
Wells for. The fearless American journalist, activist, suffragist, Princess of the Press, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. Who teamed up with various women’s organizations, such as the National Equal Rights League, formed the National Association of Colored Women in 1896, is a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, started the Negro Fellowship, and so, so much more I can’t possibly mention all here. Ms. Well’s work has even been cited to inspire today 's civil rights movements. She is an inspiration to activists that are still fighting for equal rights towards African-Americans today.
This incident caused Wells to begin her research into lynchings. She concluded that African Americans were lynched "for such social control reasons as failing to pay debts, not appearing to give way to whites, competing with whites economically, and being
She received an education at an all black school as a child and graduated college at Shaw University as class valedictorian. She was always disagreeing and questioning why African Americans weren't treated equally. Growing up with a grandmother who informed her about her life as a slave, Baker knew at a young age that blacks weren’t being treated equally. She could also see the inequality occurring in her community. When Baker was six years old, she slapped a white boy for calling her a racial slur.
Susan B. Anthony (Susan Brownell Anthony) Susan B. Anthony was a prominent feminist author who started the movement of women’s suffrage and she was also the president of the National American Women Suffrage Association. Anthony was in favor of abolitionism as she was a fierce activist in the anti-slavery movement before the civil war. Susan Anthony was born on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts, and before becoming a famous feminist figure, she worked as a teacher. Anthony grew up in a Quaker family that made her spend her time working on social causes. And her father was an owner of a local cotton mill.
The excerpt I chose to reflect on is called “An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!” by Claudia Jones (1949). Jones express the concerns that women of color in her time suffer from the neglect and degradation they receive throughout their lives. During this time, the reason many African American women go through the struggles in their community originated from the notion that the “bourgeoisie is fearful of the militancy of the Negro woman” (108). In my opinion, they have every right to be afraid of African American women. As Jones stated nicely "once Negro women undertake action, the militancy of the whole Negro people, and thus of the anti-imperialist coalition, is greatly enhanced" (108).