Ida B Wells The Great Migration

The Film describes the great migration as a way of self realese. This shows that the feeling of self realse is, to me, a state of mind. The people that did the great migration wanted to start a new life or in theory, they wanted to pack up and start their life over, away from slavery, away of all the torturing, and away from constant fear of death. The film speaks a lot of jim crow laws which were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the southern United States. At a point, lynching became an overpowering tool used against African Americans. One powerful woman named Ida B Wells, born into slavery, became the country leading anti lynching crusader. In her newspaper she would describe the harmful or the truths about lynching to the public. Ida B Wells saw a problem and used her power, her voice, to try and make a difference. In which she did. Soon afterward people started to leave the south in great numbers. “The Birth of a Nation” was considered the most visious movie made. This movie portrayed African Americans …show more content…
African Americans would have to find ways to cope with the many challeges posed by Jim Crow.” This show peoples true nature. White people would not follow the rules. Not just that, at the time even poliece officers would not encorce the new laws that had been passed in legislature. There was not any compromising. It was “the white mans voice” verses “the black mans voice,” in order to see who would win the argument. In which 9.8 out of 10 times the white man would win the argument. Nothing seemed to work. Weather it was violent or peaceful protest, African Americans would still have to put up with crap from the rest of society. Which means, even though African Americans could not be slaves, they could not be completely free either. To me, it seems that white people did not have anything better than to pick on the people that were trying to get their lives