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Ida B. Wells, Temperance, and "Race Progress"
1media/truthtelling-header.gif2019-01-08T16:50:49-08:00Frances Willard House Museum396bd2bebf501b08ca215cf721fbba097eb2e1a23042525"Intemperance is one of the strongest foes to intellectual, material, and moral advancement."plain2019-02-13T19:48:08-08:0004-1891Frances Willard House Museum396bd2bebf501b08ca215cf721fbba097eb2e1a2
"Symposium--Temperance"
In 1892, Ida B. Wells wrote an article about temperance that appeared in the AME Church Review newspaper. 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 severe. 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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1media/truthtelling-header.gif2018-11-09T16:39:27-08:00Frances Willard House Museum396bd2bebf501b08ca215cf721fbba097eb2e1a2Willard and Somerset Respond22"I am sorry that she has made such a statement for I fear it may injure her mission."image_header2019-02-01T20:50:26-08:0006-1894Frances Willard House Museum396bd2bebf501b08ca215cf721fbba097eb2e1a2
1media/truthtelling-header.gif2018-11-09T00:06:19-08:00Frances Willard House Museum396bd2bebf501b08ca215cf721fbba097eb2e1a2Ida B. Wells and "Lynch-Law"21"Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning."plain2019-02-13T19:27:04-08:001892Frances Willard House Museum396bd2bebf501b08ca215cf721fbba097eb2e1a2
1media/truthtelling-header.gif2018-11-08T20:11:07-08:00Frances Willard House Museum396bd2bebf501b08ca215cf721fbba097eb2e1a2Other Responses21"We want the negro spoken of to his face just as frankly as he is spoken of behind his back."image_header2019-02-01T20:51:12-08:0006-23-1894Frances Willard House Museum396bd2bebf501b08ca215cf721fbba097eb2e1a2
1media/truthtelling-header.gif2018-11-09T16:40:20-08:00Frances Willard House Museum396bd2bebf501b08ca215cf721fbba097eb2e1a2The WCTU and Lynching, 189421"A bright young colored woman, whose zeal for her race has...clouded her perception as to who were her friends and well-wishers."image_header2019-02-01T21:23:48-08:0011-1894Frances Willard House Museum396bd2bebf501b08ca215cf721fbba097eb2e1a2
1media/truthtelling-header.gif2018-11-09T17:10:09-08:00Frances Willard House Museum396bd2bebf501b08ca215cf721fbba097eb2e1a2The WCTU and Lynching, 189517"You know, dear friend, of the difficulty in which I have been placed by this most unjust controversy."image_header2019-02-01T22:02:03-08:0007-03-1895Frances Willard House Museum396bd2bebf501b08ca215cf721fbba097eb2e1a2
1media/truthtelling-header.gif2018-11-09T00:22:45-08:00Frances Willard House Museum396bd2bebf501b08ca215cf721fbba097eb2e1a2The WCTU and Lynching, 189316"We denounce the lynching, burnings, and torturings of our fellow citizens for real or supposed crimes..."image_header2019-02-13T19:29:20-08:0011-1893Frances Willard House Museum396bd2bebf501b08ca215cf721fbba097eb2e1a2
1media/truthtelling-header-2.png2018-11-09T17:10:43-08:00Frances Willard House Museum396bd2bebf501b08ca215cf721fbba097eb2e1a2Postscripts12image_header2019-02-01T22:15:01-08:0011-1895Frances Willard House Museum396bd2bebf501b08ca215cf721fbba097eb2e1a2