What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
Ida B. Wells
Thus 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.
places
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.
race
The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
rights
The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
intelligence
Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.
crime
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.
suppression
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