"In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress... The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing." — Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Exposition Address, 1895
Ida B. Wells's anti-lynching journalism in the 1890s differed from Washington's approach primarily because Wells
- A
Urged African Americans to remain in the rural South
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Insisted on direct public confrontation of racial violence and political injustice
- C
Counseled patience until courts revisited Plessy v. Ferguson
- D
Endorsed industrial education as the foundation of Black progress
Explanation
Wells investigated lynchings, named perpetrators, and demanded federal intervention; she rejected accommodation and used data and the press to challenge white supremacist violence directly.