What Ida B. Wells thinks about education
American journalist and civil rights leader (1862 to 1931); author of Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.
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1 dated position, c. 1892, in their own words. Our reading of what Ida B. Wells has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingRape was unknown during the Civil War, when white Southern women were at Black men's mercy
Their wordsThe thinking public will not easily believe freedom and education more brutalizing than slavery, and the world knows that the crime of rape was unknown during four years of civil war, when the white women of the South were at the mercy of the race which is all at once charged with being a bestial one.
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