American Racial Relations In The Late 19th Century And Ida Bell Wells's Anti-lynching Activities

After the Civil War in the United States,Africa Americans have become free people,but they also subjected to hostility from Southern whites.They don't want to recognize the equal status of black people,and try to deprive blacks of their civil rights.Although the thirteen,fourteen and fifteen constitution amendments had been legislated,but still can not help the improvement of the black situation.Not only that,White Americans rose the lynching from the South.They dragged the blacks from the jail and marched to the street to kill them,and they even ignore the fact to lynching the blacks by hanged or fired them,caused great damage to black people.During this period,the phenomenon of lynching in the United States has developed to a peak,numerous victims lynched to death.The spread of lynching elicited the determination of blacks to save themselves,many prominent have stepped up to fight for black's civil rights.Ida B.Wells is the outstanding civil rights activist of this period.Ida first taught in school,then worked became an editor of the newspaper,and finally settled in Chicago,still working as an editor while dedicated to a campaign of anti-lynching.She used the media and public opinion against Ku Klux Klan and other terrorist forces,promoting the Civil Rights Movement and made an important contribution to eliminate lynching.However,the study of lynching problem is not much more in our daily study,and rarely known about Ida.This thesis aims to study the racism after the Civil War and Ida's lynching activities,sum up her contribution to the expose of abuse lynching and civil rights movement.