Reference no: EM133665899

Question: "The very week the 'leading citizens' of Memphis were making a spectacle of themselves in defense of all white women of every kind, an Afro-American, M. Stricklin, was found in a white woman's room in that city. Although she made no outcry of rape, he was jailed and would have been lynched, but the woman stated she bought curtains of him (he was a furniture dealer) and his business in her room that night was to put them up. A white woman's word was taken as absolutely in this case as when the cry of rape is made, and he was freed." "Last winter in Baltimore, Md., three white ruffians assaulted a Miss Camphor, a young Afro-American girl while out walking with a young man of her own race. They held her escort and outraged the girl. It was a deed dastardly enough to arouse Southern blood, which gives its horror of rape as excuse for lawlessness, but she was an Afro-American. The case went to the courts, an Afro-American lawyer defended he men and they were acquitted." Submit a 6-8 sentence response about your primary source discussing the following: How did gender and race incite the violent actions Wells describes? For whites, what is at stake? In your response, include direct quotes from the primary source AND historical context from the assigned secondary sources.