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Journalist

Ida B. Wells was an American journalist, teacher, and activist who played a crucial role in the civil rights movement. She is best known for her investigative reporting on the lynching of African Americans and her advocacy for women's rights.

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Famous Ida B. Wells Quotes

“Lynching is color line murder.”

Lines Color Murder Lynching

Author:Ida B. Wells

“Those who commit the murders write the reports.”

Writing Murder Commit Reports

Book:The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader

Source: The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader

“Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.”

Men Individual Murder Bravery Brave Bounds Defense Resistance Torture Brave Man Lynching

Author:Ida B. Wells

“The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.”

Should Has Beens Spirit Should Have Vote Universal Murder Absolutes Satisfied Avoided Should Have Been Menace Suppression Suffrage Lynching Universal Suffrage Butchery

Book:The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader

Source: The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader

“The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.”

Men White Violence Victory Murder Fraud White Man Intimidation

Book:On Lynchings

Source: On Lynchings

“In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.”

Men Humans Kind Facts Political Women Human Beings Judging Men And Women Murder Excuse All Kinds Offense Jury Lynching Wholesale Misdemeanors

Author:Ida B. Wells

About the Author

Born: July 16, 1862
Died: March 25, 1931
Known for: Journalist
Quotes: 40

Books & Sources

Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. WellsRelated source material

On LynchingsRelated source material

The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching CrusaderRelated source material

The Red Record: Top Crime CollectionsRelated source material

Selected Works of Ida B. Wells-BarnettRelated source material

Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases: Easyread Large Bold EditionRelated source material

Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases: Easyread Super Large 20pt EditionRelated source material

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