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66-455: (Redirected from Datcher ) Datcher is a surname. People with the surname [ edit ] Jane Eleanor Datcher (1868–1934), American botanist Kelvin Datcher , American politician Linda Datcher Loury (1952–2011), American economist See also [ edit ] Datchet [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with

132-523: A historically Black college in Nashville , Tennessee. She also attended LeMoyne–Owen College , a historically Black college in Memphis. She held strong political opinions and provoked many people with her views on women's rights. At the age of 24, she wrote: "I will not begin at this late day by doing what my soul abhors; sugaring men, weak deceitful creatures, with flattery to retain them as escorts or to gratify

198-483: A $ 500 (~$ 16,956 in 2023) award. The railroad company appealed to the Tennessee Supreme Court , which reversed the lower court's ruling in 1887. It concluded: "We think it is evident that the purpose of the defendant in error was to harass with a view to this suit, and that her persistence was not in good faith to obtain a comfortable seat for the short ride." Wells was ordered to pay court costs. Her reaction to

264-668: A high academic level, while also earning parity pay with Washington's white school teachers. Ida B. Wells Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931) was an American investigative journalist , sociologist , educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement . She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Wells dedicated her career to combating prejudice and violence, and advocating for African-American equality—especially that of women. Throughout

330-657: A job with The New York Age and continued her anti-lynching campaign from New York. For the next three years, she resided in Harlem , initially as a guest at the home of Timothy Thomas Fortune (1856–1928) and wife, Carrie Fortune (née Caroline Charlotte Smiley; 1860–1940). According to Kenneth W. Goings, no copy of the Memphis Free Speech survives. The only knowledge of the newspaper ever existing comes from reprinted articles in other archived newspapers. On October 26, 1892, Wells began to publish her research on lynching in

396-522: A lynching in Tunica, Mississippi , in 1892 where she concluded that the father of a young white woman had implored a lynch mob to kill a Black man with whom his daughter was having a sexual relationship, under a pretense "to save the reputation of his daughter". In a 1909 speech at the National Negro Conference, Wells said: During the last ten years from 1899 to 1908 inclusive the number lynched

462-659: A moral crusade among the British. She relied heavily on her pamphlet Southern Horrors in her first tour, and showed shocking photographs of lynchings in America. On May 17, 1894, she spoke in Birmingham , West Midlands , at the Young Men's Christian Assembly and at Central Hall , staying in Edgbaston at 66 Gough Road. On June 25, 1894, at Bradford she gave a "sensational address, though in

528-464: A pamphlet titled Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases . Having examined many accounts of lynchings due to the alleged "rape of white women", she concluded that Southerners accused Black men of rape to hide their real reasons for lynchings: Black economic progress, which white Southerners saw as a threat to their own economic progress, and white ideas of enforcing Black second-class status in

594-589: A postman in addition to being the owner of the People's Grocery, was named as a conspirator along with McDowell and Stewart. The three men were arrested and jailed pending trial. Around 2:30 a.m. on the morning of March 9, 1892, 75 men wearing black masks took Moss, McDowell, and Stewart from their jail cells at the Shelby County Jail to a Chesapeake and Ohio rail yard one mile north of the city and shot them dead. The Memphis Appeal-Avalanche reports: Just before he

660-594: A quiet and restrained manner". On the last night of her second tour, the London Anti-Lynching Committee was established – reportedly the first anti-lynching organization in the world. Its founding members included many notable figure including the Duke of Argyll , Sir John Gorst , the Archbishop of Canterbury , Lady Henry Somerset and some twenty Members of Parliament , with activist Florence Balgarnie as

726-520: A revenge." . . . It is with no pleasure that I have dipped my hands in the corruption here exposed ... Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so. – Ida B. Wells (1892) On September 15, 1883, and again on May 4, 1884, a train conductor with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ordered Wells to give up her seat in

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792-461: A sheriff's deputy took electric streetcars to the People's Grocery. The group of white men were met by a barrage of bullets from the People's Grocery, and Shelby County Sheriff Deputy Charley Cole was wounded, as well as civilian Bob Harold. Hundreds of Whites were deputized almost immediately to put down what was perceived by the local Memphis newspapers Commercial and Appeal-Avalanche as an armed rebellion by Black men in Memphis. Thomas Moss,

858-541: A small Memphis journal, the Evening Star, and she began writing weekly articles for The Living Way newspaper under the pen name "Iola". Articles she wrote under her pen name attacked racist Jim Crow policies. In 1889, she became editor and co-owner with J. L. Fleming of The Free Speech and Headlight , a Black-owned newspaper established by the Reverend Taylor Nightingale (1844–1922) and based at

924-457: A widower with two sons, Ferdinand Barnett and Albert Graham Barnett (1886–1962). Ferdinand Lee Barnett, who lived in Chicago, was a prominent attorney, civil rights activist, and journalist. Like Wells, he spoke widely against lynchings and in support of the civil rights of African Americans. Wells and Barnett had met in 1893, working together on a pamphlet protesting the lack of Black representation at

990-455: Is a volume of evidence as to the wonderful patience of Southern whites. But we've had enough of it." The Evening Scimitar ( Memphis ) copied the story that same day, and added: "Patience under such circumstances is not a virtue. If the Negroes themselves do not apply the remedy without delay it will be the duty of those whom he has attacked to tie the wretch who utters these calumnies to a stake at

1056-564: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Jane Eleanor Datcher Jane Eleanor Datcher was born 1868 and raised in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Samuel and Mary Victoria Cook Datcher. Her maternal grandfather, Rev. John Francis Cook, Sr. , was the founding pastor of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. Datcher attended both public and private schools run by members of

1122-463: The 1878 yellow fever epidemic . She got a job teaching and kept the rest of the family together with the help of her grandmother. Later, moving with some of her siblings to Memphis, Tennessee . Soon, Wells co-owned and wrote for the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight newspaper, where her reporting covered incidents of racial segregation and inequality. Eventually, her investigative journalism

1188-704: The Beale Street Baptist Church in Memphis. In 1891, Wells was dismissed from her teaching post by the Memphis Board of Education due to her articles criticizing conditions in the Black schools of the region. She was devastated but undaunted, and concentrated her energy on writing articles for The Living Way and the Free Speech and Headlight . In 1889, Thomas Henry Moss, Sr. (1853–1892), an African American, opened People's Grocery , which he co-owned. The store

1254-761: The Civil War . Lizzie was owned by Boling for domestic labor in his home, now the Bolling–Gatewood House . Before the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, both of Wells's parents were enslaved to Boling, and thus Ida was also born enslaved. James Wells built much of the Bolling–Gatewood house, in which Boling lived, and which in March 2002 became the Ida B. Wells–Barnett Museum. The Wells family lived elsewhere on

1320-472: The Free Speech had been building, particularly with respect to lynchings and imprisonment of Black men suspected of raping white women. A story was published on January 16, 1892, in the Cleveland Gazette , describing a wrongful conviction for a sexual affair between a married white woman, Julia Underwood (née Julie Caroline Wells), and a single Black man, William Offet (1854–1914) of Elyria, Ohio . Offet

1386-411: The Free Speech refuting what she called "that old threadbare lie that Negro men rape white women. If Southern men are not careful, a conclusion might be reached which will be very damaging to the moral reputation of their women." Four days later, on May 25, The Daily Commercial wrote: "The fact that a Black scoundrel [Ida B. Wells] is allowed to live and utter such loathsome and repulsive calumnies

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1452-566: The South because they represented economic and political competition—and thus a threat of loss of power—for whites. She aimed to demonstrate the truth about this violence and advocate for measures to stop it. Wells was born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi . She was freed as an infant under the Emancipation Proclamation , when Union Army troops captured Holly Springs. At the age of 16, she lost both her parents and her infant brother in

1518-494: The World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Barnett founded The Chicago Conservator , the first Black newspaper in Chicago, in 1878. Wells began writing for the paper in 1893, later acquired a partial ownership interest, and after marrying Barnett, assumed the role of editor. Wells's marriage to Barnett was a legal union as well as a partnership of ideas and actions. Both were journalists, as well as established activists with

1584-421: The surname Datcher . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datcher_(surname)&oldid=1253752444 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

1650-507: The 1890s, Wells documented lynching of African-Americans in the United States in articles and through pamphlets such as Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in all its Phases and The Red Record , which debunked the fallacy frequently voiced by whites at the time that all Black lynching victims were guilty of crimes. Wells exposed the brutality of lynching, and analyzed its sociology, arguing that whites used lynching to terrorize African Americans in

1716-654: The American press, Wells had nevertheless gained extensive recognition and credibility, and an international audience of supporters for her cause. Wells's tours in Britain even influenced public opinion to the extent that British textile manufacturers fought back with economic strategies, imposing a temporary boycott on Southern cotton that pressured southern businessmen to condemn the practice of lynching publicly. On June 27, 1895, in Chicago at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church , Wells married attorney Ferdinand Lee Barnett ,

1782-510: The Black community in Washington, D.C. In 1877, she earned a certificate for her academic achievement from the Public Schools of the District of Columbia . In 1886, Jane enrolled at Cornell University at the age of 19 with her cousin, Charles Chauveau Cook . It was the only school that would educate them both. She obtained her Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell in 1890 for her research on

1848-527: The Ohio Governor. Dear Miss Wells:       Thank you for your faithful paper on the lynch abomination now generally practiced against colored people in the South. There has been no word equal to it in convincing power. I have spoken, but my word is feeble in comparison ... Brave woman! ... – Frederick Douglass (October 25, 1892) On May 21, 1892, Wells published an editorial in

1914-452: The South since the Civil War. The Red Record explored the alarmingly high rates of lynching in the United States (which was at a peak from 1880 to 1930). Wells said that during Reconstruction, most Americans outside the South did not realize the growing rate of violence against Black people in the South. She believed that during slavery, white people had not committed as many attacks because of

1980-573: The attention of Northerners who knew little about these mob murders or accepted the common explanation that Black men deserved this fate. According to the Equal Justice Initiative , 4,084 African Americans were murdered in the South , alone, between 1877 and 1950, of which, 25 percent were accused of sexual assault and nearly 30 percent, murder. Generally southern states and white juries refused to indict any perpetrators for lynching, although they were frequently known and sometimes shown in

2046-432: The conductor and two men dragged her out of the car. Wells gained publicity in Memphis when she wrote a newspaper article for The Living Way , a Black church weekly, about her treatment on the train. In Memphis, she hired an African-American attorney to sue the railroad. When her lawyer was paid off by the railroad, she hired a white attorney. Wells won her case on December 24, 1884, when the local circuit court granted her

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2112-417: The dynamics of segregation. She found sympathetic audiences in Britain, already shocked by reports of lynching in America. Wells had been invited for her first British speaking tour by Catherine Impey and Isabella Fyvie Mayo . Impey, a Quaker abolitionist who published the journal Anti-Caste , had attended several of Wells's lectures while traveling in America. Mayo was a writer and poet who wrote under

2178-592: The economic labor value of slaves. Wells noted that, since slavery time, "ten thousand Negroes have been killed in cold blood, [through lynching] without the formality of judicial trial and legal execution". Frederick Douglass had written an article noting three eras of "Southern barbarism" and the excuses that whites claimed in each period. Wells explored these in her The Red Record: Wells collected 14 pages of statistics related to lynching cases committed from 1892 to 1895; she also included pages of graphic accounts detailing specific lynchings. She wrote that her data

2244-614: The editor of the Daily Inter Ocean , a Republican newspaper in Chicago. It was the only major white paper that persistently denounced lynching. After she told Nixon about her planned tour, he asked her to write for the newspaper while in England. She was the first African-American woman to be a paid correspondent for a mainstream white newspaper. Wells toured England , Scotland , with Eliza Wigham in attendance and Wales for two months, addressing audiences of thousands, and rallying

2310-455: The extreme violence perpetrated upon Black Americans, Wells concluded that armed resistance was a reasonable and effective means to defend against lynching. She said, a " Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home." Wells travelled twice to Britain in her campaign against lynching, the first time in 1893 and the second in 1894 in effort to gain the support of a powerful white nation such as Britain to shame and sanction

2376-470: The fight and rushed outside to defend the young Harris from the adult Hurst as people in the neighborhood gathered into what quickly became a "racially charged mob". The white grocer Barrett returned the following day, March 3, 1892, to the People's Grocery with a Shelby County Sheriff's Deputy, looking for William Stewart. Calvin McDowell, who greeted Barrett, indicated that Stewart was not present, but Barrett

2442-490: The first-class ladies car and move to the smoking car, which was already crowded with other passengers. In 1883, the United States Supreme Court had ruled against the federal Civil Rights Act of 1875 (which had banned racial discrimination in public accommodations). This verdict supported railroad companies that chose to racially segregate their passengers. When Wells refused to give up her seat on September 15,

2508-409: The higher court's decision revealed her strong convictions on civil rights and religious faith, as she responded: "I felt so disappointed because I had hoped such great things from my suit for my people. ... O God, is there no ... justice in this land for us?" While continuing to teach elementary school, Wells became increasingly active as a journalist and writer. She accepted an editorial position for

2574-456: The honorary secretary. As a result of her two lecture tours in Britain, Wells received significant coverage in the British and American press. Many of the articles published by the latter at the time of her return to the United States were hostile personal critiques, rather than reports of her anti-lynching positions and beliefs. The New York Times , for example, called her "a slanderous and nasty-minded Mulatress ". Despite these attacks from

2640-437: The intersection of Main and Madison Sts., brand him in the forehead with a hot iron and perform upon him a surgical operation with a pair of tailor's shears." A white mob ransacked the Free Speech office, destroying the building and its contents. James L. Fleming, co-owner with Wells and business manager, was forced to flee Memphis; and, reportedly, the trains were being watched for Wells's return. Creditors took possession of

2706-571: The name of Edward Garrett. Both women had read of the particularly gruesome mob murder of Henry Smith in Texas and wanted to organize a speaking tour to call attention to American lynchings. Impey and Mayo asked Frederick Douglass to make the trip, but he declined, citing his age and health. He then suggested Wells, who enthusiastically accepted the invitation. In 1894, before leaving the US for her second visit to Great Britain, Wells called on William Penn Nixon ,

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2772-587: The office and sold the assets of the Free Speech. Wells had been out of town, vacationing in Manhattan ; she never returned to Memphis. A "committee" of white businessmen, reportedly from the Cotton Exchange , located Rev. Nightingale and, although he had sold his interest to Wells and Fleming in 1891, assaulted him and forced him at gunpoint to sign a letter retracting the May 21 editorial. Wells subsequently accepted

2838-544: The photographs being made more frequently of such events. Despite Wells's attempt to gain support among white Americans against mob murders, she believed that her campaign could not overturn the economic interests whites had in using lynching as an instrument to maintain Southern order and discourage Black economic ventures. Ultimately, Wells concluded that appealing to reason and compassion would not succeed in gaining criminalization of lynching by Southern whites. In response to

2904-437: The phrase "poor, blind Afro-American Sampsons" to denote Black men as victims of "white Delilahs ". The Biblical " Samson ", in the vernacular of the day, came from Longfellow 's 1865 poem, " The Warning ", containing the line: "There is a poor, blind Samson in the land ... " To explain the metaphor "Sampson", John Elliott Cairnes , an Irish political economist , in his 1865 article about Black suffrage , wrote that Longfellow

2970-405: The predominately White Association of Collegiate Alumnae . Datcher taught chemistry at Dunbar High School until soon before her death in 1934. Dunbar was known as the best high school for black students in the area, and parents would bus their students from surrounding towns just to attend the school and receive a better education. This school gave Datcher the ability to teach black students at

3036-558: The property. Ground plans on display in the Ida B. Wells–Barnett Museum identify shacks behind the house as the residence of the Wells family. After emancipation , James became a trustee of the newly established Shaw University (now Rust College ) in Holly Springs. He refused to vote for Democratic candidates during the period of Reconstruction , became a member of the Loyal League , and

3102-487: The racist practices of the United States. She and her supporters in America saw these tours as an opportunity for her to reach larger, white audiences with her anti-lynching campaign, something she had been unable to accomplish in America. In these travels, Wells notes that her own transatlantic voyages in themselves held a powerful cultural context given the histories of the Middle Passage , and black female identity within

3168-494: The society. Black economic progress was a contemporary issue in the South, and in many states whites worked to suppress Black progress. In this period at the turn of the century, Southern states, starting with Mississippi in 1890, passed laws and/or new constitutions to disenfranchise most Black people and many poor white people through use of poll taxes , literacy tests and other devices. Wells, in Southern Horrors, adopted

3234-579: The species Hepatica triloba and Hepatica acutiloba . She was among the first three African-Americans to graduate from Cornell, along with her cousin Charles and George Washington Fields . Because of her excellent scholarship during her years at Cornell, Datcher had the honor of sitting in the center of the front row in the Cornell Class of 1890 graduation photo. Over 20 of Datcher’s relatives attended Cornell. Her cousin, Charles C. Cook, eventually joined

3300-604: The staff at Howard University as a professor and head of the English Department. Datcher went on to attend Howard Medical School from 1893 to 1894. After graduating from Cornell, Datcher helped form the Collegiate Alumnae Club (later part of the Colored Women's League ), an organization run by Mary Church Terrell as a resource for educated Black women. This group met for the first time in Washington D.C. in

3366-459: The summer of 1892 to confer about improving the conditions of black children, women and the urban poor. Other notable women in attendance include Anna Julia Cooper , Helen Appo Cook , Ida Bell Wells-Barnett , Charlotte Forten Grimké , Mary Jane Patterson , Evelyn Shaw . Although the founders were opposed to racial segregation , they wanted to open membership to graduates of Howard and other so-called "negro colleges," who were denied membership in

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3432-522: The time and was spared. Following the funerals of her parents and brother, friends and relatives decided that the five remaining Wells children should be separated and sent to foster homes. Wells resisted this proposition. To keep her younger siblings together as a family, she found work as a teacher in a rural Black elementary school outside Holly Springs. Her paternal grandmother, Peggy Wells (née Peggy Cheers; 1814–1887), along with other friends and relatives, stayed with her siblings and cared for them during

3498-619: The week while Wells was teaching. About two years after Wells's grandmother Peggy had a stroke and her sister Eugenia died, Wells and her two youngest sisters moved to Memphis to live with an aunt, Fanny Butler ( née Fanny Wells; 1837–1908), in 1883. Memphis is about 56 miles (90 km) from Holly Springs. Soon after moving to Memphis , Tennessee , Wells was hired in Woodstock by the Shelby County school system. During her summer vacations, she attended summer sessions at Fisk University ,

3564-454: Was 959. Of this number 102 were white, while the colored victims numbered 857. No other nation, civilized or savage, burns its criminals; only under that Stars and Stripes is the human holocaust possible. Twenty-eight human beings burned at the stake, one of them a woman and two of them children, is the awful indictment against American civilization—the gruesome tribute which the nation pays to the color line. Wells's anti-lynching commentaries in

3630-551: Was born to an enslaved woman named Peggy and Peggy's white enslaver, thus he was enslaved under the doctrine of partus sequitur ventrem . When James was 18, his father brought him to Holly Springs, hiring him out as a carpenter's apprentice to architect Spires Boling , with James's wages going to his enslaver. One of ten children born on a plantation in Virginia, Lizzie was abducted and trafficked away from her family and siblings and tried without success to locate her family following

3696-473: Was carried nationally in Black-owned newspapers . Subjected to continued threats and criminal violence, including when a white mob destroyed her newspaper office and presses, Wells left Memphis for Chicago , Illinois . She married Ferdinand L. Barnett in 1895 and had a family while continuing her work writing, speaking, and organizing for civil rights and the women's movement for the rest of her life. Wells

3762-432: Was convicted of rape and served four years of a 15-year sentence, despite his sworn denial of rape. Underwood's husband, Rev. Isaac T. Underwood – after she confessed to him that she had lied two years later – diligently worked to get Offet out of the penitentiary. After hiring an influential Pittsburgh attorney, Thomas Harlan Baird Patterson (1844–1907), Rev. Underwood prevailed, Offet was released and subsequently pardoned by

3828-409: Was dissatisfied with the response and was frustrated that the People's Grocery was competing with his store. Angry about the previous day's mêlée , Barrett responded that "Blacks were thieves" and hit McDowell with a pistol. McDowell wrestled the gun away and fired at Barrett—missing narrowly. McDowell was later arrested but subsequently released. On March 5, 1892, a group of six white men including

3894-588: Was killed, Moss said to the mob: "Tell my people to go west, there is no justice here." After the lynching of her friends, Wells wrote in Free Speech and Headlight urging Blacks to leave Memphis altogether: There is, therefore, only one thing left to do; save our money and leave a town which will neither protect our lives and property, nor give us a fair trial in the courts, but takes us out and murders us in cold blood when accused by white persons. The event led Wells to begin investigating lynchings. She began to interview people associated with lynchings, including

3960-617: Was known as a "race man" for his involvement in politics and his commitment to the Republican Party . He founded a successful carpentry business in Holly Springs in 1867, and his wife Lizzie became known as a "famous cook". Ida B. Wells was one of their eight children, and she enrolled in Shaw University. In September 1878, both of Ida's parents died during a yellow fever epidemic that also claimed one of her brothers. Wells had been visiting her grandmother's farm near Holly Springs at

4026-401: Was located in a South Memphis neighborhood nicknamed "The Curve". Wells was close to Moss and his family, having stood as godmother to his first child, Maurine E. Moss (1891–1971). Moss's store did well and competed with a white-owned grocery store across the street, Barrett's Grocery, owned by William Russell Barrett (1854–1920). On March 2, 1892, a young Black male youth named Armour Harris

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4092-486: Was outspoken regarding her beliefs as a Black female activist and faced regular public disapproval, sometimes including from other leaders within the civil rights movement and the women's suffrage movement . She was active in women's rights and the women's suffrage movement, establishing several notable women's organizations. A skilled and persuasive speaker, Wells traveled nationally and internationally on lecture tours. Wells died on March 25, 1931, in Chicago, and in 2020

4158-411: Was playing a game of marbles with a young white male youth named Cornelius Hurst in front of the People's Grocery. The two male youths got into an argument during the game, then began to fight. As the Black youth, Harris, seemed to be winning the fight, the father of Cornelius Hurst intervened and began to "thrash" Harris. The People's Grocery employees William Stewart and Calvin R. McDowell (1870–1892) saw

4224-475: Was posthumously honored with a Pulitzer Prize special citation "for her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching." Ida Bell Wells was born on the Boling Farm near Holly Springs, Mississippi . Born on July 16, 1862, Ida Wells was the first child of James Madison Wells (1840–1878) and Elizabeth "Lizzie" (Warrenton). James Wells

4290-568: Was prophesizing; to wit: in "the long-impending struggle for Americans following the Civil War, [he, Longfellow] could see in the Negro only an instrument of vengeance, and a cause of ruin". After conducting further research, Wells published The Red Record, in 1895. This 100-page pamphlet was a sociological investigation of lynching in the United States since the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. It also covered Black people's struggles in

4356-547: Was taken from articles by white correspondents, white press bureaus, and white newspapers. Her delivery of these statistics did not simply reduce the murders to numbers, Wells strategically paired the data with descriptive accounts in a way that helped her audience conceptualize the scale of the injustice. This powerful quantification captivated Black and White audiences about the horrors of lynching, through both her circulated works and public oration. Southern Horrors and The Red Record ' s documentation of lynchings captured

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