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.

Anthony said Ida B. Wells seemed "distracted". -old brother Stanley.

Wells was a skilled and persuasive rhetorician and traveled internationally on lecture tours. She documented lynching in the United States showing how it was often a way to control or punish blacks who competed with whites. Barnett an early leader in the civil rights movement.