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1media/truthtelling-header.gif2018-11-09T16:37:46-08:00The Center for Women's History and Leadership396bd2bebf501b08ca215cf721fbba097eb2e1a2Ida B. Wells AbroadThe Center for Women's History and Leadership47"I have seen Miss Willard and talked with her, and she sees the subject of lynching as she never saw it before..." -Ida B. Wells, 1894image_header2019-02-25T19:51:37-08:00The Center for Women's History and Leadership396bd2bebf501b08ca215cf721fbba097eb2e1a2
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1media/truthtelling-header.gif2018-11-09T16:37:46-08:00Ida B. Wells Abroad24"I have seen Miss Willard and talked with her, and she sees the subject of lynching as she never saw it before..."image_header2019-01-29T14:33:15-08:00In the spring of 1894, Wells's ongoing criticism of Willard broke out into open conflict. Wells traveled to England for a speaking tour. Her goal was to communicate the horror of the lynching crisis to British audiences. Willard was also in England, staying with Lady Isabella Somerset, her close friend and the president of the British Women's Temperance Association (BWTA).
In a column she wrote for the Chicago newspaper the Inter-Ocean during her time in England, Wells repeatedly mentioned Willard along with other well-regarded white leaders. She charged them with spreading the falsehood that most lynchings occurred after a black man had raped a white women. In her column of March 24, she wrote:
I find wherever I go that we are deprived the expression of condemnation such hangings and burnings deserve, because the world believes negro men are despoilers of the virtue of white women. ... Unfortunately for the negro race and for themselves, Miss Frances E. Willard and Bishops Fitzgerald and Haygood have published utterances in condemnation of this slander.
To prove her case about Willard, Wells had found a copy of the Voice interview from 1890. She arranged to have it reprinted in an anti-racist British newspaper called Fraternity.
In her column of May 6, 1894, however, Wells's tone about Willard changed.
However, the issue of Fraternity with Willard's interview and accompanying critique from Wells had already been sent to the printers.
