What Ida B. Wells thinks about government

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American journalist and civil rights leader (1862 to 1931); author of Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.

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   Our readingLynching has brutalized the South more than it realizes and imperils law and order

   Their wordsThe South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

   ↗Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1892)gutenberg.org All 17 from this book