Today what i would like to talk about is the way in which women themselves participated in that dialogue. Some people want to know what have,uthern white women particularly in the 1890s when it was at its height. How did black women begin to critique the systematic violence perpetrated against their brothers, fathers and friends. In this lecture, im going to spend time comparing a woman name Rebecca Latin america felton with ida b wells. Largely the lecture will be on ida b wells. Let me just give you a little bit of reminder about what we examined when it came to lynching. Two or three black southerners were lynched per week whether they were burned or mutilated or shot, we examined how those lynchings are ritualistic, and they follow a certain pattern. We look at the ethical nature of lynching and how it became a southern phenomenon. We looked at the entire Cottage Industry of photographs sold as souvenirs, the way these photographs were made into postcards. People were posing in the