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establish small holdings by a policy of government purchase from the present owners. If the Socialist theory as regards agriculture holds good anywhere, it must be in America. But on turning to the census of 1910 what do we find? Over 62 per cent. of our farms are worked by their owners, and these include about 65 per ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51679/51679-h/51679-h.htm | The Unpopular Review - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.606 | 0.874 | ["governance"] | 460 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.836448 | [
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, each of such tracts counting as a farm under the census definition.” It is further to be noted that the forces which have tended to bring about the triumph of the state and the plantation, are of less and less significance as we turn to the future, whereas the counter forces which make for agricultural decentralizati... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51679/51679-h/51679-h.htm | The Unpopular Review - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.335 | 0.874 | ["economy", "education"] | 512 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.836486 | [
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lability, from the burning of coal or other fuel. But the coal beds are far from inexhaustible, and sooner or later we must supplement our supply by the “white coal” of the waterfalls. The Age of Electricity will usher in a second great industrial revolution. By putting power in quantity at the disposal of the independ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51679/51679-h/51679-h.htm | The Unpopular Review - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.782 | 0.846 | ["crisis"] | 416 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.836516 | [
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ory enable him to compete with the great factory. Our tiny remnant of handicraftsmen may thus become a great army of artisan-engineers, combining the skill and personal attention of the old-fashioned master craftsman, with the technical training and machinery of modern engineering. And if the supply of energy within th... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51679/51679-h/51679-h.htm | The Unpopular Review - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.377 | 0.854 | ["war_conflict"] | 469 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.836548 | [
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There still remains the problem of distribution. Will the great stores, banks and exchanges continue to control the economic life of the nation? Will competition in buying and selling crush the small producer, no matter how efficient his production? It must be admitted that this is a possibility. The last moral I shoul... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51679/51679-h/51679-h.htm | The Unpopular Review - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.376 | 0.852 | ["ethics", "governance"] | 456 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.836577 | [
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ght” because of certain beneficent economic laws. Certainly it will need all our statesmanship to realize the possibilities I have sketched. All I contend is that they are possibilities, that we are not hopelessly driven to the alternative of aristocratic or democratic collectivism, that the stars in their courses do n... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51679/51679-h/51679-h.htm | The Unpopular Review - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.805 | 0.85 | ["governance"] | 453 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.836604 | [
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or despair in the matter of exchange and control. The small shop still continues to exist beside the [246] big store; the individual concern may fail, but the type endures. Perhaps all middlemen, big and small, will in the end disappear as the connection between producer and consumer becomes more direct. Even the poore... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51679/51679-h/51679-h.htm | The Unpopular Review - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.599 | 0.88 | ["networking", "governance"] | 512 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.836633 | [
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not always on the side of the biggest battalions. It is of the first importance to realize that each perceptible social change involves many other perceptible changes, that, in Spencer’s happy analogy, the social constitution is a web, no strand of which can be moved without moving others. The changes we have tried to ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51679/51679-h/51679-h.htm | The Unpopular Review - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.605 | 0.85 | ["governance"] | 454 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.836661 | [
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must diminish the billions spent on advertising. These additions to productive labor and capital must diminish the ills which have made Socialism seem desirable as well as inevitable. Suppose we do our best to realize these possibilities to the full. Suppose a Socialist then revisits the earth two or three hundred year... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51679/51679-h/51679-h.htm | The Unpopular Review - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.643 | 0.84 | ["economy"] | 434 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.836688 | [
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happy, or be sorry that it is not happy his way? If I know the Socialist, he will claim that he was right all along, and that this state of society is really Socialism. Let him claim the word; I call it democratic individualism, because it means the greatest possible distribution o | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51679/51679-h/51679-h.htm | The Unpopular Review - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.808 | 0.804 | [] | 282 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.836714 | [
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s of Lynching in the United States Author: Ida B. Wells-Barnett Release Date: February 8, 2005 [EBook #14977] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE RED RECORD *** Produced by Suzanne Shell, Melissa Er-Raqabi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at htt... | https://ia800509.us.archive.org/15/items/theredrecord14977gut/14977-h/14977-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Red Record:, by Ida B. Wells ... | ia800509.us.archive.org | 0.204 | 0.832 | ["management"] | 435 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.865425 | [
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Age_ June 25, 1892, in explanation of the editorial which the Memphis whites considered sufficiently infamous to justify the destruction of my paper, the _Free Speech_. Since the appearance of that statement, requests have come from all parts of the country that "Exiled" (the name under which it then appeared) be issue... | https://archive.org/stream/southernhorrors14975gut/14975.txt | Full text of "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" | archive.org | 0.336 | 0.854 | ["philosophy", "rhetoric"] | 459 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.878600 | [
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ause of the prejudice it fosters and the stain it places against the good name of a weak race. The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment b... | https://archive.org/stream/southernhorrors14975gut/14975.txt | Full text of "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" | archive.org | 0.867 | 0.874 | ["governance", "war_conflict", "social_justice", "philosophy"] | 467 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.878659 | [
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or importance. IDA B. WELLS _New York City_, Oct. 26, 1892 To the Afro-American women of New York and Brooklyn, whose race love, earnest zeal and unselfish effort at Lyric Hall, in the City of New York, on the night of October 5, 1892--made possible its publication, this pamphlet is gratefully dedicated by the author. ... | https://archive.org/stream/southernhorrors14975gut/14975.txt | Full text of "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" | archive.org | 0.42 | 0.868 | ["faith_spirituality"] | 500 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.878694 | [
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create conditions favorable to its own existence. It sometimes seems we are deserted by earth and Heaven yet we must still think, speak and work, and trust in the power of a merciful God for final deliverance. Very truly and gratefully yours, FREDERICK DOUGLASS _Cedar Hill, Anacostia, D.C._, Oct. 25, 1892 1 _The_ OFFEN... | https://archive.org/stream/southernhorrors14975gut/14975.txt | Full text of "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" | archive.org | 0.811 | 0.876 | ["faith_spirituality"] | 512 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.878725 | [
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one at Little Rock, Ark., last Saturday morning where the citizens broke(?) into the penitentiary and got their man; three near Anniston, Ala., one near New Orleans; and three at Clarksville, Ga., the last three for killing a white man, and five on the same old racket--the new alarm about raping white women. The same p... | https://archive.org/stream/southernhorrors14975gut/14975.txt | Full text of "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" | archive.org | 0.642 | 0.842 | [] | 418 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.878753 | [
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thread-bare lie that negro men rape white women. If Southern white men are not careful they will overreach themselves, and public sentiment will have a reaction; and a conclusion will be reached which will be very damaging to the moral reputation of their women." The fact that a black scoundrel is allowed to live and u... | https://archive.org/stream/southernhorrors14975gut/14975.txt | Full text of "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" | archive.org | 0.647 | 0.862 | ["ethics"] | 466 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.878783 | [
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of Southern whites. But we have had enough of it. There are some things that the Southern white man will not tolerate, and the obscene intimations of the foregoing have brought the writer to the very outermost limit of public patience. We hope we have said enough. The _Evening Scimitar_ of same date, copied the _Commer... | https://archive.org/stream/southernhorrors14975gut/14975.txt | Full text of "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" | archive.org | 0.842 | 0.84 | ["ethics", "philosophy"] | 417 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.878814 | [
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atience under such circumstances is not a virtue. If the negroes themselves do not apply the remedy without delay it will be the duty of those whom he has attacked to tie the wretch who utters these calumnies to a stake at the intersection of Main and Madison Sts., brand him in the forehead with a hot iron and perform ... | https://archive.org/stream/southernhorrors14975gut/14975.txt | Full text of "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" | archive.org | 0.599 | 0.886 | ["philosophy", "leadership", "ethics"] | 512 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.878842 | [
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g the same evening, and threats of lynching were freely indulged, not by the lawless element upon which the deviltry of the South is usually saddled--but by the leading business men, in their leading business centre. Mr. Fleming, the business manager and owning a half interest the _Free Speech_, had to leave town to es... | https://archive.org/stream/southernhorrors14975gut/14975.txt | Full text of "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" | archive.org | 0.83 | 0.872 | ["leadership", "management", "governance", "war_conflict", "rhetoric"] | 497 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.878871 | [
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on advised me that bodily harm awaited my return. Creditors took possession of the office and sold the outfit, and the _Free Speech_ was as if it had never been. The editorial in question was prompted by the many inhuman and fiendish lynchings of Afro-Americans which have recently taken place and was meant as a warning... | https://archive.org/stream/southernhorrors14975gut/14975.txt | Full text of "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" | archive.org | 0.639 | 0.878 | ["war_conflict", "social_justice", "education", "rhetoric"] | 512 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.878899 | [
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zing than slavery, and the world knows that the crime of rape was unknown during four years of civil war, when the white women of the South were at the mercy of the race which is all at once charged with being a bestial one. Since my business has been destroyed and I am an exile from home because of that editorial, the... | https://archive.org/stream/southernhorrors14975gut/14975.txt | Full text of "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" | archive.org | 0.786 | 0.734 | ["war_conflict", "family"] | 465 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.878930 | [
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here was a time when such a thing was unheard of. There is a secret to this thing, and we greatly suspect it is the growing appreciation of white Juliets for colored Romeos." Mr. Duke, like the _Free Speech_ proprietors, was forced to leave the city for reflecting on the "honah" of white women and his paper suppressed;... | https://archive.org/stream/southernhorrors14975gut/14975.txt | Full text of "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" | archive.org | 0.393 | 0.85 | ["philosophy", "rhetoric"] | 426 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.878958 | [
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y and continued her illicit relation undisturbed. That she is of the lower class of whites, does not disturb the fact that she is a white woman. "The leading citizens" of Memphis are defending the "honor" of _all_ white women, _demi-monde_ included. Since the manager of the _Free Speech_ has been run away from Memphis ... | https://archive.org/stream/southernhorrors14975gut/14975.txt | Full text of "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" | archive.org | 0.599 | 0.878 | ["ethics", "leadership", "management", "rhetoric"] | 512 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.878986 | [
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some mulatto young colored man, Will Morgan by name, stole her father's money to send the young fellow away from that father's wrath. She has since joined him in Chicago. The _Memphis Ledger_ for June 8 has the following: If Lillie Bailey, a rather pretty white girl seventeen years of age, who is now at the City Hospit... | https://archive.org/stream/southernhorrors14975gut/14975.txt | Full text of "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" | archive.org | 0.608 | 0.874 | ["family"] | 480 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.879011 | [
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ather, _every one of whom has since disappeared_. In Tuscumbia, Ala., the colored boy who was lynched there last year for assaulting a white girl told her before his accusers that he had met her there in the woods often before. Frank Weems of Chattanooga who was not lynched in May only because the prominent citizens be... | https://archive.org/stream/southernhorrors14975gut/14975.txt | Full text of "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" | archive.org | 0.628 | 0.872 | [] | 483 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.879039 | [
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purpose, by the appearance of Mattie's employer. Dorr's friends say he was drunk and not responsible for his actions. The grand jury refused to indict him and he was discharged. 3 _The_ NEW CRY The appeal of Southern whites to Northern sympathy and sanction, the adroit, insiduous plea made by Bishop Fitzgerald for susp... | https://archive.org/stream/southernhorrors14975gut/14975.txt | Full text of "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" | archive.org | 0.548 | 0.862 | ["decision_making"] | 481 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.879068 | [
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nters of civilization, and is encouraged by the "leading citizens" and the press. 4 _The_ MALICIOUS _and_ UNTRUTHFUL WHITE PRESS The _Daily Commercial_ and _Evening Scimitar_ of Memphis, Tenn., are owned by leading business men of that city, and yet, in spite of the fact that there had been no white woman in Memphis ou... | https://archive.org/stream/southernhorrors14975gut/14975.txt | Full text of "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" | archive.org | 0.619 | 0.864 | ["leadership", "governance", "philosophy"] | 512 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.879097 | [
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17, under the head of "More Rapes, More Lynchings" gave utterance to the following: The lynching of three Negro scoundrels reported in our dispatches from Anniston, Ala., for a brutal outrage committed upon a white woman will be a text for much comment on "Southern barbarism" by Northern newspapers; but we fancy it wil... | https://archive.org/stream/southernhorrors14975gut/14975.txt | Full text of "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" | archive.org | 0.589 | 0.858 | [] | 495 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.879123 | [
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crisis. We do not know in what form it will come. In its issue of June 4, the _Memphis Evening Scimitar_ gives the following excuse for lynch law: Aside from the violation of white women by Negroes, which is the outcropping of a bestial perversion of instinct, the chief cause of trouble between the races in the South i... | https://archive.org/stream/southernhorrors14975gut/14975.txt | Full text of "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" | archive.org | 0.336 | 0.866 | ["crisis", "governance", "philosophy"] | 461 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.879150 | [
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hite people is identical with servile submission. In consequence of the prevalence of this notion there are many Negroes who use every opportunity to make themselves offensive, particularly when they think it can be done with impunity. We have had too many instances right here in Memphis to doubt this, and our experien... | https://archive.org/stream/southernhorrors14975gut/14975.txt | Full text of "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" | archive.org | 0.831 | 0.872 | [] | 511 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.879180 | [
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nd of offending, and he almost invariably singles out white people as his victims. On March 9, 1892, there were lynched in this same city three of the best specimens of young since-the-war Afro-American manhood. They were peaceful, law-abiding citizens and energetic business men. They believed the problem was to be sol... | https://archive.org/stream/southernhorrors14975gut/14975.txt | Full text of "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" | archive.org | 0.619 | 0.87 | ["governance", "war_conflict", "diplomacy"] | 512 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.879212 | [
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m jail and lynched in a shockingly brutal manner. "The Negroes are getting too independent," they say, "we must teach them a lesson." What lesson? The lesson of subordination. "Kill the leaders and it will cow the Negro who dares to shoot a white man, even in self-defense." Although the race was wild over the outrage, ... | https://archive.org/stream/southernhorrors14975gut/14975.txt | Full text of "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" | archive.org | 0.599 | 0.878 | ["leadership", "governance", "social_justice", "philosophy"] | 512 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.879247 | [
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told the truth and shown the letters he had from the white woman in the case. Col. A.S. Colyar, of Nashville, Tenn., is so overcome with the horrible state of affairs that he addressed the following earnest letter to the _Nashville American_. Nothing since I have been a reading man has so impressed me with the decay of... | https://archive.org/stream/southernhorrors14975gut/14975.txt | Full text of "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" | archive.org | 0.811 | 0.88 | ["communication", "philosophy"] | 512 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.879305 | [
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qually guilty with the actual lawbreakers who would not persist if they did not know that neither the law nor militia would be employed against them. 6 SELF-HELP In the creation of this healthier public sentiment, the Afro-American can do for himself what no one else can do for him. The world looks on with wonder that ... | https://archive.org/stream/southernhorrors14975gut/14975.txt | Full text of "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" | archive.org | 0.629 | 0.864 | ["governance", "economy"] | 488 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.879368 | [
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and urged and waited for the authorities to act in the matter and bring the lynchers to justice. No attempt was made to do so, and the black men left the city by thousands, bringing about great stagnation in every branch of business. Those who remained so injured the business of the street car company by staying off th... | https://archive.org/stream/southernhorrors14975gut/14975.txt | Full text of "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" | archive.org | 0.359 | 0.874 | ["management", "social_justice", "philosophy", "rhetoric"] | 494 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.879396 | [
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ge our people to give them their patronage again. Other business men became alarmed over the situation and the _Free Speech_ was run away that the colored people might be more easily controlled. A meeting of white citizens in June, three months after the lynching, passed resolutions for the first time, condemning it. _... | https://archive.org/stream/southernhorrors14975gut/14975.txt | Full text of "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" | archive.org | 0.851 | 0.876 | ["rhetoric"] | 507 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.879425 | [
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d record ; Mob rule in New Orleans -- Appendices. A Wells chronology (1862-1931) ; Questions for consideration "This brief volume introduces readers to the prominent reformer and journalist Ida B. Wells and her late-nineteenth-century crusade to abolish lynching. Built around three crucial documents - Well's pamphlet S... | https://archive.org/details/southernhorrorso0000well | Southern horrors and other writings : the anti-lynching campaign of ... | archive.org | 0.231 | 0.862 | ["innovation", "social_justice", "education", "philosophy"] | 512 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.892674 | [
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w in Georgia by Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931 ; Le Vin, Louis P Publication date 1899 Topics Lynching , African Americans Publisher Chicago : This pamphlet is circulated by Chicago colored citizens Collection lincolncollection ; americana Contributor Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection Language English Item Size... | https://archive.org/details/lynchlawingeorgi00well | Lynch law in Georgia : Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931 | archive.org | 0.679 | 0.854 | [] | 512 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.903848 | [
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160 L’UOMO FATALE, 188 THE NEW WOMAN, 205 DEATH AND PITY, 223 SHELLEY, 254 SOME FALLACIES OF SCIENCE, 281 FEMALE SUFFRAGE, 302 VULGARITY, 327 THE STATE AS AN IMMORAL FACTOR, 347 THE PENALTIES OF A WELL-KNOWN NAME, 368 THE LEGISLATION OF FEAR, 382 THE SINS OF SOCIETY ‘Ses divertissements sont infiniment moins raisonnabl... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/67825/67825-0.txt | 67825-0.txt - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.315 | 0.866 | ["ethics", "social_justice"] | 512 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.917950 | [
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The only thing which I would have changed in those delightful satires would have been the title. There are no butterflies in this fast, furious and fussy age. They all died with the eighteenth century, or if a few still lingered on into this, they perished forever with the dandies. The butterfly is a creature of the mo... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/67825/67825-0.txt | 67825-0.txt - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.395 | 0.874 | [] | 512 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.918056 | [
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arrange its house-party in accord with the affinities which it sedulously remembers and ostensibly ignores, and will allow bac’ to follow coffee after dinner rather than illustrious persons should pack up and refuse to return. At risk of arousing the censure of readers, I confess that I would leave to society a very la... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/67825/67825-0.txt | 67825-0.txt - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.608 | 0.71 | ["ethics", "social_justice"] | 477 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.918138 | [
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diffuse them, and in all probability never will. ‘The Souls’ do, we know, strive in their excellent intentions and their praiseworthy faith to produce them, but they are too few in numbers, and are already too tightly caught in the tyres of the great existing machinery to be able to do much towards this end. After all,... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/67825/67825-0.txt | 67825-0.txt - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.56 | 0.888 | ["faith_spirituality", "war_conflict", "philosophy"] | 511 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.918212 | [
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r of them suffers when he can enjoy beauty only in his dreams. I do not think that the rich enjoy beauty one whit more than the poor in this day. They are in too great a hurry to do so. There is no artistic enjoyment without repose. Their beautiful rooms are scarcely seen by them except when filled with a throng. Their... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/67825/67825-0.txt | 67825-0.txt - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.398 | 0.876 | [] | 482 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.918271 | [
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dinner, with wines at choice, in the club-train. A _train de luxe_ is, by the way, the epitome and portrait of modern society; it provides everything for the appetite; it gives cushions, newspapers and iced drinks; it whirls the traveller rapidly from capital to capital; but the steam is in his nostrils, the cinder dus... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/67825/67825-0.txt | 67825-0.txt - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.377 | 0.868 | ["management", "decision_making", "networking", "diplomacy"] | 466 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.918336 | [
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amount of money which is at present spent on it. Luxury in itself is a most excellent thing, and I would fain see it more general, as the luxury of the bath was in Imperial Rome open to one and all; with the water streaming over the shining silver and snowy marbles, and the beauty of porphyry and jade and agate gleamin... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/67825/67825-0.txt | 67825-0.txt - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.6 | 0.896 | [] | 511 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.918401 | [
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are all with which well-bred people recognise their acquaintances at a reception or a ball, is fully sufficient for all purposes of recognition at any period of the day, and can amply preface conversation. The pressure of hands should be left to lovers, or to friends in moments of impulses of emotion; on leave-taking b... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/67825/67825-0.txt | 67825-0.txt - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.619 | 0.886 | [] | 512 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.918965 | [
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d low over her hand and touch it lightly with their lips; and how graceful, how respectful, how suggestive of homage is that courtly salutation! It is the fault of women that it has become the exception, not the rule. If we had Charles the First on the throne of England, and Louis Quatorze on the throne of France, what... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/67825/67825-0.txt | 67825-0.txt - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.334 | 0.85 | ["crisis"] | 437 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.918991 | [
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meaning and be the emblem of the deepest feeling. To put softly down upon a bed of moss and rose-leaves the dead white limbs of a little child may have fitness and beauty in the act. To go in the dusk of dawn into the wet, green ways of gardens, silent save for the call of waking birds, and gather some bud or leaf whic... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/67825/67825-0.txt | 67825-0.txt - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.641 | 0.806 | [] | 511 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.919014 | [
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ce to put in its modest plea for place unfrightened by the loud beating of the brazen drums of wealth. In all the annals of the social life of the world there has not been anything so atrocious in vulgarity as a fashionable wedding, whether viewed in its greedy pillaging of friends and acquaintances or in its theatrica... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/67825/67825-0.txt | 67825-0.txt - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.619 | 0.882 | ["economy"] | 512 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.919138 | [
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be offered to their princely or noble employers. Imagine the slaves of Augustus presenting him with a gold whistle, or the comedians of Louis Quatorze offering him a silver cigar-box! But all is fish which comes to the nets of the impecunious great folks of the _fin de siècle_, and the unhappy households must submit an... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/67825/67825-0.txt | 67825-0.txt - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.335 | 0.854 | ["family"] | 453 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.919194 | [
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comes women to its pulpit and to all its offices. I should distrust the Christianity of any that would deny to my mother and wife the rights it accords to (Miss Anthony's Cabinet In 1900.) CATHARINE WAUGH McCULLOCH, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, Second Auditor. Recording Secretary. RACHEL FOSTER AVERY, Corresponding Secreta... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/History_of_Woman_Suffrage/Volume_4/Chapter_17 | History of Woman Suffrage/Volume 4/Chapter 17 - Wikisource | en.wikisource.org | 0.791 | 0.72 | ["family", "social_justice"] | 507 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.932131 | [
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past twenty-five years, and I thank you for this cordial greeting." The meetings were held in the large and well-arranged Christian Church, with an auditorium seating 1,500. The four daily papers gave full and fair reports and, although there was no editorial endorsement, there was no adverse comment. The Leader thus d... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/History_of_Woman_Suffrage/Volume_4/Chapter_17 | History of Woman Suffrage/Volume 4/Chapter 17 - Wikisource | en.wikisource.org | 0.393 | 0.838 | ["leadership"] | 430 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.932350 | [
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concluded: In every county which was properly organized, with a committee in every precinct, who visited every voter and distributed leaflets in every family, the amendment received a majority vote. This ought to be sufficient to teach the women of all the States that what we need is house-to-house educational work thr... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/History_of_Woman_Suffrage/Volume_4/Chapter_17 | History of Woman Suffrage/Volume 4/Chapter 17 - Wikisource | en.wikisource.org | 0.824 | 0.842 | ["education", "family"] | 439 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.932539 | [
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ducation short of this, but we are not likely to. I believe if the slums of San Francisco and: Oakland had been thus organized, even the men there could have been made to see that it was for their interest and that of their wives and daughters to vote for the amendment. But, while the suffragists had no committees what... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/History_of_Woman_Suffrage/Volume_4/Chapter_17 | History of Woman Suffrage/Volume 4/Chapter 17 - Wikisource | en.wikisource.org | 0.823 | 0.854 | [] | 429 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.932600 | [
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urpose and not to be daunted by any obstacle—the qualities which in her many years' work in the cause Miss Anthony has so many times manifested. The Rev. Anna Howard Shaw devoted the most of her report as vice-president-at-large to the California campaign, as she had spent the greater part of the past year in that Stat... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/History_of_Woman_Suffrage/Volume_4/Chapter_17 | History of Woman Suffrage/Volume 4/Chapter 17 - Wikisource | en.wikisource.org | 0.68 | 0.88 | ["war_conflict"] | 502 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.932740 | [
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g the crowd was so great it became necessary to hold an overflow meeting, which was attended by five hundred persons. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, who was introduced as "one of Iowa's own daughters," was received with great applause. She said in part: I have a deep and tender love for Iowa. When I cross her boundary, I al... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/History_of_Woman_Suffrage/Volume_4/Chapter_17 | History of Woman Suffrage/Volume 4/Chapter 17 - Wikisource | en.wikisource.org | 0.827 | 0.878 | ["war_conflict", "family"] | 473 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.932793 | [
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warmer hand-shake because they too are from Iowa. But this State no longer occupies the first place in my heart. There are four that I love better, and every woman here feels the same. The first is Wyoming. Many pass through that State and see only a barren plain covered with sage brush, but when I cross her border, I ... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/History_of_Woman_Suffrage/Volume_4/Chapter_17 | History of Woman Suffrage/Volume 4/Chapter 17 - Wikisource | en.wikisource.org | 0.867 | 0.874 | ["war_conflict", "faith_spirituality"] | 465 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.932819 | [
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st woman desired to study medicine, not one school would admit her. Since that time, only half a century ago, 25,000 women have been admitted to the practice of medicine. If a popular vote had been necessary, not one of them would yet have her diploma. We have gained these advantages because we did not have to ask soci... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/History_of_Woman_Suffrage/Volume_4/Chapter_17 | History of Woman Suffrage/Volume 4/Chapter 17 - Wikisource | en.wikisource.org | 0.826 | 0.868 | ["education", "social_justice", "family"] | 459 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.932897 | [
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ate Field of Washington, D. C.; Gov. Frederick T. Greenhalge of Massachusetts; Dr. Hiram Corson of Pennsylvania, who stood for the full opportunities of women in medicine, and se cured the opening to them of the conservative medical societies of Philadelphia. The names of over thirty other tried and true friends who ... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/History_of_Woman_Suffrage/Volume_4/Chapter_17 | History of Woman Suffrage/Volume 4/Chapter 17 - Wikisource | en.wikisource.org | 0.604 | 0.722 | ["social_justice"] | 507 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.932924 | [
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to this world comes through the love of liberty. These were souls of noble aspiration and undaunted courage. We enter into their labors; we will enshrine them in the history of the suffrage movement and bear them gratefully in our hearts forever. May our lives be as fruitful as theirs, and when we too pass away may we ... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/History_of_Woman_Suffrage/Volume_4/Chapter_17 | History of Woman Suffrage/Volume 4/Chapter 17 - Wikisource | en.wikisource.org | 0.811 | 0.884 | ["social_justice", "economy", "faith_spirituality", "philosophy"] | 511 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.932955 | [
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lasting impression than a labored argument. Mrs. Catharine Waugh McCulloch, a practicing lawyer of Chicago, considered the hackneyed phrase All the Rights We Want, showing up in a humorous way the legal disabilities of women in her own State. The wife's earnings may be seized to pay for her husband's clothes; she can n... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/History_of_Woman_Suffrage/Volume_4/Chapter_17 | History of Woman Suffrage/Volume 4/Chapter 17 - Wikisource | en.wikisource.org | 0.376 | 0.874 | ["family", "salary", "governance", "economy", "social_justice"] | 511 | Ida B. Wells | personality | 2026-03-08T00:25:17.932987 | [
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