Back then , African American citizen were heavily discriminated by society.
For example, they did not allowed to enter the 'white folks' ' Restaurants. They don't even allowed to enter a same public restrooms as them.
They also doesn't count as citizen and not allowed to vote.
Lots and lots of discrimination
Ida B Wells used a strategy called"data
journalism" in her anti-lynching movement. She trekked through the south
keeping archives of all the lynchings that happened and the explanations for
them. She then put this together in her book "A Red Record: Tabulated
Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings
A new concept that became popular with department stores was using credit cards, and buying on credit: it allowed the users t posses good they cannot afford and on the other hand gave more revenue to the shops and they could charge interest.
