"There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it."

Long before the historic Montgomery Bus Boycott, Ida B. Wells-Barnett sunk her teeth into the strangle-hold of hatred and racism in America and refused to let go. The country heard the rallying cry of Patrick Henry, and Thomas Jefferson had signed the Declaration of Independence. But in Post-Reconstruction America, the dream of "Liberty And Justice For All" glowed dimly for America's citizens of color. Ku Klux Klan activity was on the rise and increasing. Jim Crow Laws were being enacted. "Wells-Barnett made herself a target of threatened violence by refusing to be silent in the face of intensified lynching and the attendant horrors with which these deaths were caused" (Trudier 5). For more than forty years, Wells-Barnett waged a crusade against lynching and injustice in America. She never lost faith or gave up believing that "There must always be a remedy for wrongs and injustice, if we only know how to find it" (Duster 275)