Ida B. Wells had a huge impact for what set the mark for the Women 's Rights Movement. Her drive to help make sure her voice is heard as women. Not Just any women but a women of color. What she does provides a he impact on those who were willing to fight for their rights. Going through the diary of her life, she takes us through a journey of her life during Reconstruction.
Throughout her early life, Ida was born during the civil war, which according to historian James West Davidson, "During a civil war which we have used to define one another, slave versus free, which is being eliminated from the United States"(12). The civil war also meant the Emancipation proclamation which meant a lot to the Wells family. The proclamation helped free slaves during Lincolns presidency. The proclamation only applied to the slaves living behind the confederate line. The confederate line included Holly Springs.
During the Era of Reconstruction, Ida was educated at Freedman 's School in Missouri. Sje was also educated at Rust University. At the age of fourteen, she began her career of teaching. After she pursued her teaching career, she decided to move to Memphis to get a better
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The anti-lynching writings therefore enclosed a comprehensive view of the racialized sexual politics of the south; a justification of the black men as true men, a critique of white would-be protectors as just corrupt and exposure of white women as active participants to white supremacy in sexual politics together with re-centering of the black women’s experiences in the incidences of rape, sexualized racism and lynching. She documented unbiased suffering of attacks of lynching and rape on black women and girls. By so doing, she staged a claim of outraged black womanhood that was first articulated by the opponents of slavery though becoming unthinkable under the white supremacists ideology by time the nineteenth century came to an end. She also describes the black women rapes as a piece of black men