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Ida B. Wells
1912
The direct initiative reform
In 1911, there was a factory that made shirtwaists in New York City. A shirtwaist was a kind of woman's blouse. The name of the company was the Triangle Shirtwaist Company, so their factory was called the Triangle Shirtwaist factory.
In March 1911, there was a disastrous fire in the factory and 146 employees, most young women, died in the fire or jumped to their deaths to avoid the fire.
That factory fire came to be called the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire or the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
Meat packers
Homer Plessy was 1/8 (.123%) black.
He was a troublemaker, and he learnt in South Africa
the horrors of lynching and the reasons behind it
It determined a persons status under the black codes- APEX!
Institute of Race Relations was created in 1958.
The ex-slaves were often considered as competitors for the jobs in the town and not welcomed. Towns that did not have any blacks often did not want any poorly educated, poor people who spoke with a Southern dialect and so made it hard for them to find housing and jobs.
Making Money
Based on the information in this reading passage, what did Pip think of the man's last statement?
It was rude A+
