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Wells was best known as a journalist for exposing the lies behind the justification for lynching. Negroes charged with recklessly eyeballing a White woman, or worse, were often people who had found prosperity and respect despite the constraints of Jim Crow. The lynchings put them back in their place. Wells nearly met a similar fate, but escaped as
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
I didn’t know how old Martha was. Maybe she was 11. Maybe she was 27. Probably something in between. Before she came to live with me, she lived in Puerto Rico, she had two puppies, she was cared for by someone who house trained her and also made her afraid of newspapers. Martha was loving and enigmatic. Independent. When we lived in Brooklyn, she w... See more
Jean • My best friend and my witness
A sister had been omitted from the text.
Herman Melville • Pierre; or The Ambiguities
“I had much rather starve in England, a free woman than be a slave for the best man that ever breathed upon the American continent.”