1.) As stated in the article, Mrs. Ida B. experienced her first fight when the conductor of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company asked her to give up her seat to a white man and directed her to the “Jim Crow” car. Once she had returned to Memphis after this encounter, she sued the railroad company.
2.) Mrs. Ida B. three friends were lynched because their small grocery store had stole the loyal customers of other competing white businesses. So a group of white men took it upon themselves to “eliminate” the black competition (People’s Grocery Company), by murdering them. The city of Memphis did not take action, and since the African American citizens were outnumbered and without arms, they took it upon themselves to save their money and eventually leave town.
3.) Wells continued her anti-lynching crusade in Chicago by writing Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, she help form several African American women reform organizations, and she also became a worker for women’s suffrage.
4.) Wells was the first Black woman to run for public office in the United States.
1.) Clyde Johnson
a. Yreka, California
b. August 3, 1935
c. Accused of killing Jack Daw, a white man
2.) Bennie Simmons
a. Anadarko, Oklahoma
b. June 13, 1913
c. Accused of the murder of, 16 year old, Susie Church
3.) Two Italian immigrants: Castenego Flcarrotta and Angelo Albano
a. Tampa, Florida
b. September 9, 1910
c. Accused of union sympathy and of shooting J. F. Esterling, a book keeper for the West Tampa cigar factory.
4.) Allen Brooks
a. Dallas, Texas
b. March 3, 1910
c. Accused Brooks of being with his boss missing 3 year old daughter in the barn and found “evidence of brutal treatment.”
5.) Dick Robertson
a. Pritchard Station, Alabama
b. October 6, 1906
c. Accused of assaulting a white woman
6.) Henry Lee
a. Sailsbury, North Carolina
b. August 3, 1906
c. Accused of murdering members of the Lyerly family
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