The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
Ida B. WellsThe appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
Ida B. WellsThe nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.
Ida B. WellsThus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
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