Ida B Wells
Ida B. Wells Ida B. Wells campaign was a one-woman enterprise, who used her pen and voice as powerful weapons against the injustice of lynching. ... ” (Wells 120) In Mob Rule in New Orleans’, Wells ended her pamphlet with a summary list of lynching between 1882 and 1900. ... (Royster 27) Wells understood that white men did things behind a screen, a code of “honor” and “manners”. ... (Royster 32) Wells also noted that while white women were perceived as virtuous, pure, and uninterested in sex; black women were perceived as wanton, promiscuous, and incapable of providing a stable and moral environment for their men. ... ” (Hall 32) Wells identified four basic inconsistencies about lynching and its execution. ... ” (Royster 29) Wells brought to light the fact that assaults on African American women by white men was much more frequent than assault upon a white woman by an African American man. ... ” (Royster 31) In Mob Rule in New Orleans, Wells ended her pamphlet with the following plea: “The Negro points to his record during the war in rebuttal of this false slander.