Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.

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.