After reading the chapter on Ida B. Wells, I commend her and her on-going fight to end lynching in the South. She was able to get her anti-lynching message out across multiple publications and platforms. Her articles appeared not only in independent publications, such as the New York Age, but mainstream publications picked them up as well.
Her voice was one to be reckoned with. Wells's crusade could not be stopped. When she was exiled from the South, she relocated to the North and continued to write and distribute her work in anyway she could. Wells was politically-saavy enough to realize that when offered a speaking tour in England, the British press had clout in the American South. Her anti-lynching campaign then went international.
Both before and after her trips abroad, Wells wrote pamphlets that advocated her cause, such as The Red Record. In 1895, when that pamphlet was published, Wells no longer needed support from another publisher. Wells was known nationally and internationally for her work against lynching.
Even after marriage and a short-lived retirement, Wells never abandoned her cause. After hearing wind of a particularly awful lynching in South Carolina, she was back at it. Wells went right to the White House and when that didn't work she began writing again. Fifty pages later, she had the booklet, Mob Rule in New Orleans.
Sadly, Wells never saw lynching disappear. Her crusade started a conversation but failed to finish it.
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