Question

Ida B. Wells’s book The Red Record

exposed the corruption of the Standard Oil monopoly.
exposed the corrupt practices of the railroad industry.
exposed the horrors of lynching in America.
exposed the terrible work conditions of the meat-packing industry.

Answer 1

Option c. Ida B. Wells's book "The Red Record" exposed the horrors of lynching in America.

Step-by-step explanation:

Ida B. Wells was an African-American journalists, feminist, and abolitionist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States during the 1890s. Born into slavery and later freed under the Emancipation Proclamation during the American Civil War, in the year 1895 Wells published "The Red Record" a 100-page pamphlet that described and documented lynching in America since the Emancipation Proclamation occurred in 1863. Wells described in her work, how lynching was used as mechanism for whites to keep oppressing and killing black citizens with false pretenses against black people, particularly black men, in order to keep the unbalanced power between white and black communities.

Answer 2

Ida B. Wells’s book The Red Record : exposed the horrors of lynching in America.

Lynching refers to the execution initiated by mob hire by a certain establishment toward a group or individuals who displeased the establishment in a certain way. This practice is common among government and illegal business owners at that time to silence or intimidate those who endanger their operation.