Ida B. Wells Exiled: Office Destroyed, Death Threats Force Her North

While Wells is traveling in New York, a white mob destroys the Memphis Free Speech office and printing equipment. White Memphis newspapers publish her home address and warn she will be killed if she returns. Wells, who had written that the rape pretext for lynching was 'a thread-bare lie,' is forced into permanent exile. She settles in New York and begins her national anti-lynching campaign.