By Victor Trammell Photo credits: L.A. Scruggs An angry white mob bombarded and torched Ida B. Wells' newspaper's office in Memphis, Tennessee, on May 27, 1892, while she was abroad visiting Philadelphia. If Wells returned to the city, she faced severe physical injury or death. Three Black men had been lynched in Memphis only months […]

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