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A One-Woman Crusade:
After three friends were lynched in Memphis in 1892, Ida B. Wells used her newspaper to campaign against lynching and for race and gender equality. She also wrote a book, title page at left, about the lynching laws in the South. Despite her years of personal appears to presidents, Congress never passed legislation outlawing the practicing. This anti-lynching bill, far left, introduced in the House of Representatives in 1937, failed to pass in the Senate. Not until 2005, 74 years after Ida B. Wells's death, did the U.S. Senate apologize for its failure to pass such a law. |