quotation - Ida B. Wells

"The lesson this [a successful example of resistance to lynchers] teaches and which every African American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give."

-- Civil rights leader Ida B. Wells.

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Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862–March 25, 1931) was an African American journalist, newspaper editor and, with her husband, a newspaper owner [1].  An early leader in the civil rights movement, she documented the extent of lynching in the United States.  She was also active in the women's rights movement and the women's suffrage movement.

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