What Ida B. Wells thinks about religion

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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 readingThe so-called race question is really about using religion, science and law to excuse crimes against a race

   Their wordsThese are not pleasant facts, but they are illustrative of the vital phase of the so-called race question, which should properly be designated an earnest inquiry as to the best methods by which religion, science, law and political power may be employed to excuse injustice, barbarity and crime done to a people because of race and color.

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