I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.
Ida B. WellsThe white manโs victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
Ida B. WellsThere is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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.
Ida B. Wells