Read this short excerpt of Ida B. Wells’s Southern Horrors titled The Malicious and Untruthful White Press. Wells was an activists and researcher who wrote extensively about lynching in the post-Civil War American South. Wells was a black woman living in the post-Civil War South. When her friend was lynched, Wells resolved to research lynching cases. In Southern Horrors, Wells meticulously documented numerous cases of lynching, explored the motivations behind these acts, and exposed the systemic racism and white supremacist ideologies that fueled them. She also criticized the complicity of the legal system and media in perpetuating these atrocities and advocated for the necessity of social and legal reform to protect the rights and lives of Black Americans.
Drawing from the Anti-Mexican Mob Violence podcast episode, the Ida B. Wells excerpt, and the rest of the module content, write a minimum of 300 words answering the following: Historically, what role did media play in instances of racial and ethnic violence in the United States? Do you think the media plays a role in instances of racial and ethnic violence today? Explain using specific details from the course material.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/14975/14975-h/14975-h.htm#THE_MALICIOUS_AND_UNTRUTHFUL_WHITE_PRESS
Anti-Mexican Mob Violence in the Borderlands: A Lynching in Rocksprings, Texas
