The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

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.