IBW and.....Lynching

1. Iba B. Wells sued the railroad company and she became partner in a newspaper called "Free speech and highlight". She wrote a paper about the railroad incident and it flourished.

2. Her three friends were lynched because they owned a grocery store that was competing with a local white grocery store. They organized a boycott of a white owned business to try and stem the terror of lynching.

3. She helped develop numerous black women organizations and marched for universal suffrage in Washington, D.C.

4. She was the first black woman to run for the public office in the U.S.


1.
a. Clyde Johnson
b. Yreka, California
c. August 3, 1935
d. He was an alleged murder

2.
a. Bennie Simmons
b. Anadako, Oklahoma
c. June 13, 1913
d. Murder of 16 year old

3.
a. George and Ed Silsbee
b. Fort Scott, Kansas
c. January 20, 1900
d. Alleged Murder

4.
a. Allen Brook
b. Dallas, Texas
c. March 3, 1910
d. Was with 3 year old daughter of servant

5.
a. Dick Robinson
b. Pritchard station, Alabama
c. October 6, 1906
d. Assaulting white women

6.
a. Leo Frank
b. Marietta, Georgia
c. August 17, 1915
d. Murder of little Mary Phagen