Ida B Wells-Barnett

"If American conscience were only half alive, if the American church and clergy were only half christianized, if American moral sensibility were not hardened by a persistent infliction of outrage and crime against colored people, a scream of horror, shame and indignation would rise to Heaven wherever your pamphlet shall be read." -Frederick Douglass, to Ida B. Wells-Barnett In 1892, investigative journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett published a pamphlet...