![]() ![]() All of you by your own confession stand as individual units striving against a united band to fight or hold your own. At last I got mad, and said, 'You people have not been lynched enough! You haven't been lynched enough to drive you together! You say you are only ten millions in this country, with ten times that number against you-all of whom you say are solidly united by race prejudice against your progress. I have asked each delegation 'What are you doing to help yourselves?' Each group gave the same answer, namely, that they are so divided in church, lodges, etc., that they have not united their forces to fight the common enemy. “During my stay here in your city I have been visited by several groups of your people-all of whom have recited the story of the wrongs and injustices heaped upon the race all of them appealing to me to denounce these outrages to the world. They also told how the mob fought over the hot ashes for bones, buttons, and teeth for souvenirs.”Ĭrusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. The dispatches told in detail how he had been tortured with red-hot irons searing his flesh for hours before finally the flames were lit which put an end to his agony. ![]() The local papers issued bulletins detailing the preparations, the schoolchildren had been given a holiday to see a man burned alive, and the railroads ran excursions and brought people of the surrounding country to witness the event, which was in broad daylight with the authorities aiding and abetting this horror. He had been arrested and imprisoned while preparations were made to burn him alive. A Negro had been charged with ravishing and murdering a five-year-old girl. “The next morning the newspapers carried the news that while our meeting was being held there had been staged in Paris, Texas, one of the most awful lynchings and burnings this country has ever witnessed. ![]()
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