Ida B. Wells Launches First Organized National Anti-Lynching Campaign

After her newspaper offices are destroyed and she receives death threats, Ida B. Wells relocates to New York and launches a systematic anti-lynching campaign, speaking across the Northeast and in England and Scotland. Her two British tours in 1893 and 1894 generate international pressure on the U.S. government and spark the founding of anti-lynching societies on both continents.