The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.

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.