) Outraged by his remarks, she considered his rejection of a college education as a "bitter pill." (Hine, 80) As matter of fact, She argued in an article entitled "Booker T. Washington and His Critics" (World Today, April 1904) regarding industrial education, "This gospel of work is no new one for the Negro. It is the South's old slavery practice in a new dress." (Hine, 198) Furthermore, she felt that industrial education limited the types of education and number of school open to aspiring young blacks. Ida saw Washington as no better than the whites that justified their actions through lynching. In all her writings she maintained her goal of finding justice for the Negro race and in doing so she set forth in community work.Her diligent commitment to the community resulted in prominent organizations. Her work among the clubwomen for social improvement in Chicago started the formation of the Ida B. Wells Club. Through her club she established a kindergarten for black children. It was the first black women's club in Chicago with there motto stating, "Helping Hand." The clubs main objective was "Elevation of Women, Home, and Community." The club achieved two other outstanding achievements besides establishing the first kindergarten; it assisted in forming the first black orchestra in Chicago, and had a charter membership in the League of Cook County Clubs. The last achievement was significant because it lead to integration with the participation of other black clubs in the formally all white organization. Elizabeth L. Davis, founder of the Phyllis Wheatley Club, recognized the benefit derived by later organizations from the association and activities of the first club:"From these helpful programs of club work, race unity and parliamentary drill in the mother club, have sprung all the other clubs of Chicago and the state and from the ranks of its members have come many of our club presidents, our leading business women and our...
