Truth-Telling: Frances Willard and Ida B. Wells

Willard's Southern Tours

In the 1880s, Willard traveled throughout the South recruiting women to the WCTU and giving pro-temperance speeches. She wrote in her autobiography, Glimpses of Fifty Years (1889) that "that trip was the most unique of all my history. It 'reconstructed' me" (pg. 373).

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