Anti-Lynching Campaign Builds: Wells and New York Age 1892

After being exiled from Memphis, Ida B. Wells published her first extended anti-lynching analysis in the New York Age on June 25, 1892, with T. Thomas Fortune printing 10,000 copies for distribution across the country. This article, later expanded into Southern Horrors, launched the organized anti-lynching movement. Black women's clubs in New York and Boston raised money to fund Wells's campaign, marking the beginning of organized Black women's civil rights activism.