Ida B. Wells-Barley Analysis

Ida B. Wells-Barnett is sitting in her train seat, reading a book as the conductor of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company stomps up to her
Train Conductor: Ma’am you have to move to the smoking car
Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Excuse me?
Train Conductor: You must relocate at the smoking car
Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Why? I have done nothing wrong, I paid for my ticket, you can see my stub if you’d like.
Ida pulls out her ticket stub and holds it in front of the conductor
With a disgusted face, the conductor pushed her hand away from his face with two fingers
Train Conductor: His gentleman needs a seat for the trip
A white man steps out from the conductor’s shadow
Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Sir, the smoker car is too crowded and this is the ladies’ car, …show more content…
Wells-Barnett: And I will not tell you again, this is my paid seat and I am not moving from it so that this man can have my seat. I thought the Civil Rights Act would end discrimination, I have more of a right to be here than this man!
Train Conductor: Get up and move to the car you belong in!
The train conductor grabbed Ida’s arm
Ida bit his hand and braced her self again the seat in front and held on to the back of her seat
Train Conductor: Ouch! Greg (baggageman) and you there (random man) come help me with this stubborn mule!
Ida B. Wells-Barnett: No! You have no right! This is inhuman!
Ida fought and held on to chairs and doors to escape
The three men dragged Ida out of the Ladies’s car and threw her into the packed smoker’s car
Ida B. Wells-Barnett: I will press charges! See you in the courthouse, you scoundrels!
The conductor scoffed and slammed the car door

Later, Ida hired an attorney to sue the railroads and she won. However, the railroad company request to the Supreme Court of Tennessee, and it reversed the lower court's ruling. Even though in the end she did not win, many African Americans looked up to her and from being so well known, she wrote a