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Summary Of Mob Rule Of New Orleans By Ida B. Wells

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Have you faced racial persecution due to the color of your skin? The time was 1900’s and this was the nightmare that Ida B. Wells-Barnett wrote of in Mob Rule of New Orleans. This is the true account of Robert Charles as he fights for his life to escape the hands of a lynching mob. This impassion story collaborates with the witness of this terrifying event that Wells describes. Wells uses her literary skills to shed light on racial discrimination, media bias, and her personal crusade for justice to portray this heart wrenching reality of the violent lynching during the 19th century. Ida B. Wells-Barnett wrote this story as a way to express the discrimination and the hate that the media was hard pressed to cover. She suffered discrimination …show more content…

Many African-Americans were discriminated against during this time, and this showed throughout the events that started the terrible events in New Orleans during this time. Many African-Americans were hunted down during the events of this story, though they were not a part of the Robert Charles crime streak. This showed the hatred that many African-Americans faced for the color of their skin. The events of this story started because of discrimination that caused the police to become aggressive with two African-Americans that were just sitting on a door step. The reason that the crime streak of Robert Charles was started because he was the victim of racial profiling by police in New Orleans. According to Ida B. Wells, “But the best proof of the fact that the officers accosted the two colored men and without any warrant or other justification attempted to arrest them, and did actually seize and begin to club one of them...” (Wells-Barnett 841) African-Americans faced racial prosecution daily during this time in American history. Many faced the fear of being lynched almost daily. Many lynches occurred during the events of the …show more content…

The Picayune and the Times-Democrat newspapers give a very different account of details and facts of the lynching of Charles than the information provided by Ida B. Wells-Barnett. According to Wells-Barnett in her writings Mob Rule in New Orleans,“The New Orleans Picayune of the same date described the occurrence, and from its account one would think it was an entirely different affair. (Wells-Barnett 840) Due to the social and cultural discrimination against African Americans during the 19th century, many newspapers in America were not trusted to report the true facts of any controversial events that included African Americans. Furthermore, in the Southern Horror: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, she calls the mainstream media “the malicious and untruthful press.” (Wells-Barnett page 63). She explains the reason that she writes of the events that transpired in New Orleans is because the mainstream media would not accurately and fairly cover what had caused Robert Charles to go on his crime streak. Therefore, Ida B. Wells-Barnett decided to spread the factual reasons and the events through pamphlets that were cheap and easy to

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