Ida B. Wells-Barnett spent 40 years of her life as the most prominent opponent of lynching in the United States. Look into her background and discuss what in her own life-experience may have motivated her to dedicate her life that cause. (Search her up on the Internet and/or watch the short video biography in the “week three” folder) Then, address the document, “Lynch Law,” itself, (“Lynch Law” is not an actual law, it is an “unwritten” law), and comment on how she constructs her article (or argument). Finally, how does lynching figure into the Jim Crow system that was developing in the South (and in many ways, all across the United States) at the time she wrote her article, which is on p. 233 in the Zinn pdf.

Ida B. Wells-Barnett spent 40 years of her life as the most prominent opponent of lynching in the United States. Look into her background and discuss what in her own life-experience may have motivated her to dedicate her life that cause. (Search her up on the Internet and/or watch the short video biography in the “week three” folder) Then, address the document, “Lynch Law,” itself, (“Lynch Law” is not an actual law, it is an “unwritten” law), and comment on how she constructs her article (or argument). Finally, how does lynching figure into the Jim Crow system that was developing in the South (and in many ways, all across the United States) at the time she wrote her article, which is on p. 233 in the Zinn pdf.