She wrote in her diary, “Oh, my God! Can such things be and no justice for it?”
She wrote in her diary, “Oh, my God! Can such things be and no justice for it?” She had read a story in the New York Times about a mob who had taken “Eliza Woods, colored” "from the county jail and stripped naked and hung up in the courthouse yard and her body riddled with bullets and left exposed to view!” She would protest the lynching in an editorial for The Gate City Press, a black newspaper in Kansas City, Missouri. It would be one of the many lynchings she would protest and write about, sharing awareness. She would also compile statistical data based on her own meticulous research for an extensive study on lynching. She started an international crusade against lynching with information that is still used today. She was one of the most famous women of her time, a mentor to W.E.B. Du Bois and close friends with Frederick Douglass. But, history would not remember her well. According to her biographer, Paula Giddings, her contributions went largely unacknowledged among her conte...