Ida B Wells Stereotypes

Ida B Wells, the feminist we all should aspire to be like. She began her anti-lynching campaign in 1892. She wrote many articles to bring light to the racial injustices in the world at that time. She worked hard to dismantle the stereotypes of African American people but apparently, not hard enough. Ida B Wells spent all of her adult life trying to bring justice to those who were lynched and to black people everywhere. She worked to dismantle the stereotypes of black men and women because they used these stereotypes to justify the lynching of black people. However, these stereotypes are still here today. Ida tried to prove that white women really loved black men and were voluntarily having relations with them. During this time it was disheartening to the white ear that a white woman would voluntarily sleep with a black men. They believed the only way white women could be having relations with black men would be under the circumstances of rape, because black men are rapist in the eyes of the white world. Ida wanted nothing more but to dismantle that stereotype and prove the odd …show more content…
African American women during this time didn’t even blink at these claims. They were the ladies you wanted to be. Walked with such poise, it took your breath away. White women were intimidated by this. They had to do something, and that’s when they decided to go after their men. Anna Julia Cooper said “only the BLACK WOMAN can say when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.” The black women held the whole race together, hence why a black women had to fight to kill the stereotypes of the black men. The stereotypes were just one made up reason of many others that white people used to justify