Ida B Wells | Lesson Plan | DBQ | Jim Crow Era
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In this lesson from the Jim Crow Era, students watch 20 minutes of a documentary to learn background on Ida B. Wells. During this time they answer questions related to the video. They learn how about Ida B. Wells' background, how she fought segregation and how she gets involved in fighting lynching. Then students read primary source documents written by Ida B. Wells and answer the DBQ prompt.
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Lesson Outline:
Warmup - Direct students to speak with their neighbors about the following question, "If the government attempted to take away our liberty, equality, democracy, safety, etc. would you risk your life to get it back?" Once students have had plenty of time to talk to their neighbors ask student volunteers to share out their answers with the rest of the class.
Explain to students that today we are going to learn about someone who fought for that very thing. Although slavery had ended, Southern states were passing laws that took away freedom, Equality, democracy, and safety from Black Americans. Ida B Wells, a teacher then journalist risked her life to fight for equality. In order to learn about her upbringing and start in civil rights we are going to watch 20 minute video clip and read primary sources. At the end of this lesson you will write a DBQ response that requires you to cite evidence from the primary sources.
Start playing video. Ensure that students understand the following:
1. Ida B. Wells lost her parents and brother at a young age and lead the rest of her family following that moment.
2. Ida B. Wells refused to move from an all white train car in Tennessee, 3 Men forced her from the seat and she challenged it in court
3. Started writing and believed it to be freeing and fell in love with it
4. Her close friend Thomas Moss was lynched by a white mob
These four events transformed her life.
Direct students to review the primary sources and pay attention to how they relate to the essay prompt. They should pay attention to the manner in which Ida B. Wells fought against racism. Students should answer the questions while reviewing the sources. Then make sure students understand the following about the sources:
Source One - Ida B. Wells handed out written journals at the Chicago World's fair that shared with the rest of the world what was happening in the American South (mass lynching of Black Men)
Source Two & Three - Ida B Wells traveled across the country, even to Great Britain, giving speeches and raising awareness for lynching in the American South
Source Four - Ida B Wells created detailed records of each case of lynching she could find. She wrote about the victim and exposed the perpetrators. She shared every detail and directly called out the racist mobs.
Source Five - She wrote a series of articles titled, "Free Speech" which detailed new cases of lynching in the south and shared it with the rest of the world.
Instruct students to answer the DBQ prompt. There first sentence or two should directly answer the question and be supported by evidence from the primary sources by citing them in their text. They can either use an in text citation by saying, Source One, Source Two, etc. within a sentence or may put it at the end of the sentence in ().
