What social conditions gave rise to the Memphis lynching?

Please answer the following questions from your primary sources book, Voices of Freedom.

Pg. 62 – Ida B. Wells, Crusade For Justice.

1. What social conditions gave rise to the Memphis lynching?

2. What does Wells see as the contributions of the antilynching movement?

Pg. 72 – Emilio Aguinaldo on American Imperialism in the Philippines.

1. Why does Aguinaldo think that the United States is betraying its own values?

2. In what ways does Aguinaldo think that Americans misunderstood Filipinos?

Pg. 85 – The Industrial Workers of the World and the Free Speech Fights (1909)

1. Why was freedom of speech so important to labor organizations like the IWW?

2. What does the IWW’s experience reveal about the status of civil liberties in

early-twentieth-century America?

Pg. 90 – Margaret Sanger on “Free Motherhood,” from Woman and the New Race (1920)

1. In Sanger’s Free Motherhood piece, how does Sanger define “free womanhood”?

2. How does Sanger distinguish between “natural affection” and “selection”?