Jenny needs cozy’s Reviews > Southern Horrors and Other Writings; The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900 1st by Ida B. Wells (1996) Paperback > Status Update

fear to open their mouths before this great outrage. They do not see that by their tacit encouragement, their silent acquiescence, the black shadow of lawlessness in the form of lynch law is spreading its wings over the whole country.

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Men who stand high in the esteem of the public for Christian character, for moral and physical courage, for devotion to the principles of equal and exact justice to all, and for great sagacity, stand as cowards who fear to open their mouths before this great outrage. They do not see that by their tacit encouragement, their silent acquiescence, the black shadow of lawlessness in the form of lynch law is spreading its