I don't know what most white people in this country feel, but I can only include what they feel from the state of their institution.

Now, this is the evidence.

You want me to make an act of faith risking myself, my wife, my woman, my sister, my children, on some idealism which you assure me

exists in America, which I have never seen.

Welcome to Black History for White People, a podcast where we educate, resource, and challenge

white people about Black history.

I'm Brad, and on today's show on my co-host Katina and

Garrett. Today's topic is Ida B. Wells. We first cover her early life and then we make our way into

her lynching activism and her move to England that started to mount British pressure on America.

Some of the backlash that she received, her return to

America, some specific lynchings, including the Chicago lynching, her work with Susan B. Anthony,

the NAACP, and the St. Louis Massacre. We hope you enjoy the discussion.

Okay, so today we're going to be talking about Ida B. Wells. But before we dive into the episode,

Garin Katina, we want to take this time to just address a simple question that I would have,

if I were you as a listener, I would, as I'm hearing the podcast, you may hear ads every now and then.

And you're probably like, whoa, ads, that probably means they're

making money from it. Where's that money going? So we just want to be kind of up front and clear about

where that money's going. And just so it's very clear, Garin and I are not making money from this

podcast. So anything that we do with, you know, Garin spends a lot of time researching. I spend a lot of

time doing the backend stuff. And we're not making a profit from this. So all that money goes back into

projects that we have coming down the pipeline. One of those things is maybe there will be a

website in the future where we can kind of put more stuff on the, on the interwebs. Or maybe there's

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