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“The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.”
Source: Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (New York, 1892), chapter VI, “Self-Help”
Context Written after a mob destroyed her Memphis newspaper office in May 1892, the pamphlet documented lynchings and urged Black Americans to publicise the facts.
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