“If Southern white men are not careful, they will overreach themselves and public sentiment will have a reaction; a conclusion will then be reached which will be very damaging to the moral reputation of their women.” — Ida B. Wells-Barnett Copy Share Image
“There can be no possible belief that these people were inspired by any consuming zeal to vindicate God’s law against miscegenationists of the most… — Ida B. Wells-Barnett Copy Share Image
“(Lynched for Wife Beating) In nearly all communities wife beating is punishable with a fine, and in no community is it made a felony.… — Ida B. Wells-Barnett Copy Share Image
“LYNCHED BECAUSE THE JURY ACQUITTED HIM The entire system of the judiciary of this country is in the hands of white people. To this… — Ida B. Wells-Barnett Copy Share Image
“The next morning the newspapers carried the news that while our meeting was being held there had been staged in Paris, Texas, one of… — Ida B. Wells-Barnett Copy Share Image
“If Southern white men are not careful, they will overreach themselves and public sentiment will have a reaction; a conclusion will then be reached… — Ida B. Wells-Barnett Copy Share Image
“ASKING WHITE WOMAN TO MARRY HIM May 23, William Brooks, Galesline, Ark.” — Ida B. Wells-Barnett Copy Share Image
“The matter came up for judicial investigation, but as might have been expected, the white people concluded it was unnecessary to wait the result… — Ida B. Wells-Barnett Copy Share Image
“South Carolina had thirteen lynchings last year, ten were charged with assault on white women, one with horse stealing and two with being impudent… — Ida B. Wells-Barnett Copy Share Image
“I also found that what the white man of the South practiced for himself, he assumed to be unthinkable in white women. They could… — Ida B. Wells-Barnett Copy Share Image
“Not only is it true that many of the alleged cases of rape against the Negro, are like the foregoing, but the same crime… — Ida B. Wells-Barnett Copy Share Image
“LYNCHED FOR NO OFFENSE Perhaps the most characteristic feature of this record of lynch law for the year 1893, is the remarkable fact that… — Ida B. Wells-Barnett Copy Share Image
“Haiti as an independent republic accepted the invitation extended to her along with other nations, and erected a building on the World's Fair grounds.… — Ida B. Wells-Barnett Copy Share Image
