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.

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.