Ashley Simpson

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She suggested that Georgia’s white men lacked “manhood enough” to protect their women from predatory black men. She suggested that they summon the courage to lynch any black man caught with a white woman. In a letter to the Atlanta Constitution, she wrote, “The black fiend who lays unholy and lustful hands on a white woman in the state of Georgia shall surely die!”
Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
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