Miss Wells Abroad

Ida B. Wells goes to England to talk to audience about support for black people. She continues to fight for black rights despite of negative press in the States.

Miss Ida B. Wells is now in England addressing large audiences in Defense of our people in this country.
She is doing Noble work and deserves all of the Commendation which has been bestowed upon her.
The Press of Memphis fall of her with Slanders to vile to mention, and which could have emanated only from the recesses of a sinful heart, but the injury intended for her reacted upon themselves. We all know this patriotic little lady, and night after night from many a lonely cabin in the Southland go up prayers to God for her success in this worthy undertaking.
She has told the truth and is painting in all of it hideousness the horrible State of Affairs which exist under our berry eyes.
England has been the Asylum for the oppressed app on more than one occasion and that she should open wide her doors and receive in her generous embrace is wounded child of the Southland is a fitting consummation of that fatal happening at Memphis which made an exile or one of its noblest daughters.

“Miss Wells Abroad,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed January 20, 2026, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/1559.