Indianapolis Journal, 9/3/1894

Indianapolis Journal, 9/3/1894

IDA J. WELLS SPEAKS

SHE DENOUNCES THE WHOLESALE LYNCHING IN TENNESSEE,

And Says It Is High Time Steps Were Taken to Make Such Crimes Impossible.

Chicago, Sept. 2 – Ida J. Wells, the young colored woman whose work on the lecture platform here and abroad in behalf of the anti-lynching movement has made her name well known, could scarcely restrain her emotion when she read the published account of the fate visited upon six of her race near Millington, Tenn.

Indianapolis Journal, 9/3/1894