What effect did the withdrawal of federal troops and Supreme Court decisions have on African-American rights?
• What laws did the southern states pass that created a new order? What was the effect on the progress of African-Americans? • Why did Wells refuse to go into the other car? What did she do? What happened to her? What did the whites do? How did she respond? What was the end result? What effect did the Supreme Court’s decision have on her attitude about her race? • What political action did Wells take to get her story out? What organizations helped her? What meaning did she find for her life? • Why did Ida lose her teaching job? Why was she called “the Princess of the Press?” • What personal qualities made Wells popular? What issues did she focus on in her writing? • What was the incident in Arkansas that concerned African-American officials? Why did the governor of Arkansas do nothing? What was the “lynch law?” How did pamphlets affect the outcome? • What happened to Ida’s friends? Why? How did 20-30 people end up in jail? What happened to the killers? • Describe Ida’s friend that was
