Ida B. Wells and 'American Atrocities' in Britain

This article examines the lectures and reception of Ida B. Wells during her 1893 and 1894 anti-lynching tours of Great Britain. Focusing on the rhetorical strategies Wells used in her lectures on these tours, and the way in which she capitalized upon the attention she received in the press, I argue that these tours show us that Wells was at the center of British reform rather than marginalized or a lone militant as she would later become in the United States.