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She said "there is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms (...)There is therefore only one thing left to do; save our money and leave a town." If we look at this first of Ida's protests against lynching, this appears to be a rather fatalistic tone, a tone where she proposes renouncing, not as a way of fighting the injustice, but a way to protect lives. This tone however changes as soon as she moved to Chicago and is most relevant in her anti-lynching manifesto, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, published the same year. In her work, she counts no less than 150 lynch-related deaths. Many of the Negroes had been accused of rape, but just as many were absolved of the accusation, only subsequent to their death.

Ida Wells expresses in strong words her belief in this work. She acknowledges the existence of the lynch law, but, in her beliefs, this lynch law is equivalent to lawlessness and it was dangerously spreading, at the time, throughout the country....

Further more, she accuses and points the finger towards those who prefer to remain quiet facing the injustice, instead of following their Christian beliefs and their principles of racial justice.
Her anti-lynching campaign was radical in words and in approach, but this did not necessarily have the expected echo in the South. Indeed, for the white people here, she was just another Negro fighting for her rights and was not to be accounted for. However, she remained in history as a constant fighter for justice.

Bibliography

Baker, Lee. D. Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Her Passion for Justice. On the Internet at http://www.duke.edu/~ldbaker/classes/AAIH/caaih/ibwells/ibwbkgrd.html

2. Ida B. Wells, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1892). On the Internet at http://womhist.binghamton.edu/teacher/DBQaswpl1.htm

Baker, Lee. D. Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Her Passion for Justice. On the Internet at http://www.duke.edu/~ldbaker/classes/AAIH/caaih/ibwells/ibwbkgrd.html

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Baker, Lee. D. Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Her Passion for Justice. On the Internet at http://www.duke.edu/~ldbaker/classes/AAIH/caaih/ibwells/ibwbkgrd.html

2. Ida B. Wells, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1892). On the Internet at http://womhist.binghamton.edu/teacher/DBQaswpl1.htm

Baker, Lee. D. Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Her Passion for Justice. On the Internet at http://www.duke.edu/~ldbaker/classes/AAIH/caaih/ibwells/ibwbkgrd.html
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