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Question: How come Ida B!. Wells was not recognized or given gratitude to stop lynching!?
She was the first and only African American female who fought hard to stop lynching!. There was only one lynching reported in the U!.S AFTER SHE DIED, NO MORE LYNCHINGS WERE REPORTED!!!
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Ida B!. Wells was an important leader in the nationwide crusade against lynching, but it's not accurate to say that she was the only woman committed to the anti-lynching cause!. also, it's inaccurate to say that there were no more lynchings in the U!.S!. after Wells died in 1931!. The ugly truth is that lynchings continued, and Southern Senators continued filibustering against federal anti-lynching laws!.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you mean when you write, "There was only one lynching reported in the U!.S AFTER SHE DIED, NO MORE LYNCHINGS WERE REPORTED!!!" Maybe you're saying that although there were lots of lynchings going on, only one was reported in the press during her lifetime, and none were reported in the press after she died!. That's not true, either!. There may have been many lynchings that received little or no press attention, but there were some particularly notorious ones that got wide coverage!. also, white lynch mobs were often proud of their handiwork and wanted to publicize it as a way of terrorizing black citizens!. They often posed for photographs with the dead bodies of their victims, and circulated those photos as postcards, which is a kind of "reporting!."Www@QuestionHome@Com