racism 7
- The rape cry has silenced press and pulpit on lynching
- Conceding a right to lynch for one crime concedes the right to lynch anyone for anything
Ida B. Wells
American journalist and civil rights leader (1862 to 1931); author of Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.
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What Ida B. Wells says most about
America 5
- White men lynch Black men for consensual relationships with white women, not for rape
- Every Black home should keep a Winchester rifle for the protection the law refuses
government 2
- Lynching has brutalized the South more than it realizes and imperils law and order
- Lynchers will only be punished when public sentiment demands it
journalism 2
- The rape cry has silenced press and pulpit on lynching
- Boycott, emigration and the press together can stamp out lynch law