Gidget Taylor: Ida B. Wells
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Ida B. Wells : [speaking of Henry Smith's lynching] The lesson this teaches, which every Negro should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home and should be used for their protection, which the law refuses to give! We must rise against mob rule, not just from a standpoint of sentiment, nor even so much from a standpoint of justice to a weak race, but from a desire to preserve our American institutions. The struggle against lynching has the same moral import as the struggle against slavery, for as the Henry Smith lynching showed, both were league with death and the covenant with hell!
