MEMPHIS EVENING SCIMITAR


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Memphis Evening Scimitar

Tie the wretch who utters these calumnies to a stake … brand him on the forehead with a hot iron, and perform upon him a surgical operation with a pair of tailor’s shears.
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The Scimitar editors assumed that the author was a man. It was Ida B. Wells. The lynch mob found no one and only ransacked the Free Speech offices, threatening to lynch the editors if they ever returned.

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