Truth-Telling: Frances Willard and Ida B. Wells Main Menu Introduction How to Use This Resource Timeline Essential Context Interpretive Essays Bibliography and Further Reading About This Project / Contact Us Credits
The Center for Women's History and Leadership
Center for Women's History and Leadership
1730 Chicago Avenue
Evanston, IL 60201
info@franceswillardhouse.org

The WCTU and Lynching, 1893

30425
In the fall of 1893, the WCTU passed this anti-lynching resolution at its annual convention. Susan Fessenden, the Massachusetts WCTU leader who sponsored it, said later that the assembly accepted it without much controversy. Compare the text to the resolution passed at the next convention, in the fall of 1894.






 

This page has paths:

  1. Timeline The Center for Women's History and Leadership

This page has tags:

  1. Frances Willard and the "Race Problem" The Center for Women's History and Leadership
  2. Ida B. Wells, Temperance, and "Race Progress" The Center for Women's History and Leadership

Contents of this tag:

  1. 1893 WCTU Anti-Lynching Resolution

This page references: