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Strategies of Uplift in the Jim Crow Era. Ida B. Wells, 1893. “Negro Expulsion From Railway Car”. African American schoolhouse, Virginia, ca. 1920. Ida B. Wells, Southern Horrors , 1892. The lynching of Henry Smith, Texas, 1893. Will James, lynched in Cairo, Illinois, 1909.
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Crowd at the lynching of Jesse Washington, Waco, Texas, 1916
Booker T. Washington speaking before a southern crowd, ca. 1895
Booker T. Washington delivers a lecture at Carnegie Hall, 1906
W.E.B. Du Bois, historian and civil rights activist, ca. 1905
“Lynchings in the U.S.: The Massacre of Negroes in Atlanta,” Le Petit Journal (Fr), 1906
StepinFetchit as “Jeff Poindexter” in Judge Priest, ca. 1934