Truth-Telling: Frances Willard and Ida B. Wells

Ida B. Wells, Temperance, and "Race Progress"

In 1892, the AME Church Review published a roundtable discussion on temperance by four black women, including Ida B. Wells. Wells argued that, while black people were probably not any more likely to drink than others, the consequences of drunkenness for people who were already poor and oppressed were even more dangerous. She called on black educators, journalists, and ministers to draw attention to the dangers of drink for black Americans and thus foster “race progress.”

 

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