Ida B. Wells: “Lynching: Our National Crime”

Glossary

• Chautauqua an educational institution, founded in New York State, that provides nontraditional educational opportunities and forums for discussion of public issues
• Gallinger Jacob Harold Gallinger, a U.S. senator
• holocaust mass murder, usually directed against a racial, ethnic, or religious group
• John Temple Graves newspaper editor and politician from Georgia
• Ku Klux Klan a white supremacist organization, formed in 1866, that mounted a campaign of violence and intimidation against African Americans, Jews, and others
• "With malice toward none but with charity for all" a quotation from President Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address