Summary Of Ida B Wells's 'This Awful Slaughter'

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IDA B. WELLS "This Awful Slaughter" In 1909 Ida B. Wells delivered the above mentioned speech at the NAACP’s first annual conference held in Atlanta, Georgia. The speech was and still is, deeply touching. Moreover, mere words alone are a far cry from living through the horrendous cruelty being played out on a daily basis. The horrific brutality proved that a number of people were disconnected to a simple conception of" love thy neighbor" while claiming to be children of God. It is wholly unfathomable the acts of depravity within the soul of another human. For the preceding generations these acts of the past make it almost impossible to comprehend. Ida B. Wells ' life was filled with unimaginable despair, frustration and injustice and became the voice for those who had suffered, which took a great deal of courage for a woman of her time. It is usually the plight and the fight of those oppressed to make the needed changes in society. In addition the speech brought attention to the hypocrisy of a nation under God. "Why is mob murder permitted by a Christian nation"? a question that deserved an examination of behavior unbefitting of people who claimed to be worshipping a God of love. After all barbaric behavior is the opposite of the teachings of any true religious convictions based on a theme of loving thy neighbor and the Good Samaritan. With the speech in mind, while doing family research on a website called Ancestry, there were death records of

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