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The anti-lynching of Ida B. Wells took place in the post-Reconstruction era. By the end of the Civil War, slavery was abolished but there was a problem. No one knew what to do with all the ex-slaves. They didn’t know how to put them into the existing soc ....

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.... it would be worthless. But, now that the slaves were free, they were no longer property and were worthless so why not get rid of them? After much political and emotional interest in lynching, Ida B. Wells launched her anti-lynching in 1892 in which 241 people were lynched. Through her hard work and determination she made a great mark in history. With the distribution of her pamphlets she was able to help people realize that the information that was out there was not necessarily true. She showed people the truth of what was going on and decided that it had to be stopped. Many might say the her efforts were a failure but in the statisti ....