AAAD 150 1nd Edition Lecture 13 Outline of Last Lecture I Book T Washington and W E B DuBois Outline of Current Lecture II Ida B Wells III Lynching IV Anti Lynching V Madame C J Walker VI Jack Johnson Galveston Giant Current Lecture Ida B Wells African American journalist newspaper editor suffragist and leader in civil rights movement Documented lynching and showing how it was used as a punishment to those who competed with whites Active in women s rights o Established several women s organizations Traveled internationally for lecture tours Lynching Used to suppress challengers by dominant group Frequent in times of social and economic tension Execution by mob justice Anti Lynching Civil rights movement aimed to stop lynching o African American tried to persuade politicians to end practice Didn t Work Pushed for anti lynching legislation Created by black convention meets Afro American League and National Equal Rights Council had spearheaded movement These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Madame C J Walker American entrepreneur and philanthropist First female self made millionare in America Made fortune by developing and marketing line of beauty and hair products for black women Jack Johnson Galveston Giant American boxer Became first African American world heavy weight boxing champion Faced with lots of controversy o Charged with violating Mann Act even though lack of evidence and charge was very biased
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