#IDedicateThisWeekTo Ida B. Wells, AfAm investigative journalist, educator, &early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She a founder of the NAACP.
Wells investigated lynchings, exposing w/interviews that black men were lynched for consensual affairs w/white women, not rapes.

I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way.

Ida B. Wells

Those who commit the murders write the reports.

Ida B. Wells

I’d rather go down in history as one lone Negro who dared to tell the government that it had done a dastardly thing than to save my skin by taking back what I said.

Ida B. Wells

Ida B. Wells
Anyone interested in the pioneering activist journalism of Ida B. Wells, who exposed the savagery of White Supremacy in the southern states, to the world, including the shameless horror of lynching—can read one if her publications, here.
https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/wellslynchlaw.html

The matter came up for judicial investigation, but as might have been expected, the white people concluded it was unnecessary to wait the result of the investigation—that it was preferable to hang the accused first and try him afterward.

Ida B. Wells

LYNCHED FOR NO OFFENSE Perhaps the most characteristic feature of this record of lynch law for the year 1893, is the remarkable fact that five human beings were lynched and that the matter was considered of so little importance that..

Ida B. Wells

LYNCHED FOR NO OFFENSE
...that the powerful press bureaus of the country did not consider the matter of enough importance to ascertain the causes for which they were hanged.

Ida B. Wells