I couldnt belive it

Dear Dennis and Judith Fradin,

"'This is exactly what we should find out,' Ida told Ferdinand. 'There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.'" That was one of the quotes from your biography, Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.

While reading this remarkable book, I was fascinated and shocked by some of the stories and statistics that are within it. You were right when you said that most of the generation didn't even know what the word "lynching" meant. Even I, in the year of 2003, didn't know. Everything you wrote about the lynchings never occurred to ...