 Hello and welcome to the Betsy B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives at UT Libraries. Today we're going to look at some items related to Mary Church Terrell as well as to the NAACP of which she was a founding member. The first is this pamphlet United States atrocities Lynch Law by the activists and journalists Ida B. Wells Barnett. Wells Barnett and Terrell were only one year apart in age. They both grew up in Memphis. We're both charter members of the NAACP and we're both active in the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Terrell's anti-lynching activism was spurred by the 1892 lynching of her friend Thomas Moss and she joined Wells Barnett and anti-lynching campaign soon after. That same year Wells Barnett who we see here in a frontist peace portrait published the pamphlet Southern Whores which exposed lynching as a weapon of terror used by white people to intimidate African Americans and suppress black progress. This pamphlet United States atrocities is the United Kingdom edition of Southern Whores. It begins with a letter from Frederick Douglas which praises Wells Barnett's important work on lynching. There is also an introduction by Lux editor S.J. Celestine Edwards who was a black British temperate's advocate and popular speaker.