Truth-Telling: Frances Willard and Ida B. Wells

Armenian Christians

Between 1894 and 1896, the Ottoman Empire massacred hundreds of thousands of Armenian Christians. American Christian organizations like the WCTU widely deplored the killings. It is not clear exactly why this resolution and the following text were lumped together, but one possible effect is to frame lynchings as just one example of violence among many across the world, not something unique to the American South.

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