1media/truthtelling-header.gif2018-11-09T16:40:20-08:00The Center for Women's History and Leadership396bd2bebf501b08ca215cf721fbba097eb2e1a2304252Willard's president's address at the annual WCTU convention in November 1894 in Cleveland, in which she directly addressed the conflict and Wells (who was in the audience, according to her biographer Paula Giddings).plain2018-11-09T17:15:02-08:0011-1894The Center for Women's History and Leadership396bd2bebf501b08ca215cf721fbba097eb2e1a2Shows Willard digging herself a little deeper, reiterating her belief that the "nameless outrages perpetrated upon white women and little girls" continued to cause anxiety in the South, and referring to Wells as "a bright young colored woman, whose zeal for her race has, as it seems to me, clouded her perception as to who were her friends and well-wishers." Reflects in general white women's reluctance to believe what Wells's reporting had uncovered, that rape accusations and lynchings often occurred after the discovery of a consensual relationship between a black man and a white woman--Willard essentially believes this to be slander. Also reiterates her support of voting restrictions
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