"The 1892 lynching of three Black men in Memphis inspired Wells to launch what would come to be known as her “anti-lynching” campaign. This was in fact America’s first organized movement for criminal justice reform in the face of systemic anti-Black racism and violence."
Peniel E Joseph, The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century
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