Ida B. Wells Lynching Campaign  and the history of Lynching

1. Mrs. Ida B. Wells fought for the right to keep her seat on the railroad by bitting the conductor on the back of his hand.  Although she did not succeed she sent out a lawsuit against the railroad company which lead to her journalism career.
2. Three of Mrs. Well's friends were lynched because their People's Grocery Company became a threat to white business owners.  They were sent to jail for defending themselves after these white business owners tried to attack them.  While in jail a lynch-mob broke in and lynched these three men to death
3. She continued her anti-lynching fight by writing "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases".
4. Mrs. Ida B. Wells was the first black women to run for public office in the US.

• On August 3rd, 1935 in Yreka, California Clyde Johnson was lynched by nearly 50 people for being accused for the murder of the police officer Dunsmuir.
• George and Ed Silsbee was lynches on January 20th,1900 in Scott, Kansas for an unknown reason.
• On Aug. 6th, 1906 in Salisbury, North Carolina Nease G., John G. Jack D., Henry Lee, and George Irwin were lynched for being accused of murdering a family.
• Jesse Washington was lynched in Waco, Texas on May 16, 1916 for an unknown reason.
• In Oxford, Georgia an African American male was lynched for an unknown reason by white males who wanted to publicize their work.
• Dick Robinson was lynched on Oct. 6th 1906 in Pritchard Station, Alabama randomly by white males who wanted to put an end to "innocent bloodshed".