SOURCE: Foreman, P. Gabrielle. Review of The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells, by Ida B. Wells-Barnett. African American Review 31 (summer 1997): 363-65.

In the following review, Foreman gives a favorable assessment of a published edition of Wells-Barnett's diary.

To know Ida B. Wells, more than a hundred years after she launched her journalistic career, is to love her. We admire the courageous newspaper editor who in the same year her friend Thomas Moss was lynched in Memphis published an editorial that declared: “Nobody in this section believes that old threadbare lie that Negro men assault white women. If Southern white men are not careful they will overreach themselves and a conclusion will be reached which will be very damaging to the moral reputation of their women.” Those of us who know of Ida B. Wells tend to think of a woman of almost mythic proportions, an unflinching anti-lynching...