![]() Editorials in the daily papers of that date caused a meeting to be held in the Cotton Exchange Building a committee was sent for the editors of the "Free Speech," an Afro-American journal published in that city, and the only reason the open threats of lynching that were made were not carried out was because they could not be found. ![]() ![]() Wednesday evening May 24th, 1892, the city of Memphis was filled with excitement. She delivered a similar speech twice in February 1893, at the Tremont Temple in Boston, Massachusetts, and by invitation of Frederick Douglass at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C. She delivered this speech at Lyric Hall in New York City on October 5, 1892, and published the speech as a pamphlet on Oct. ![]() Wells first published a version this speech on June 25, 1892, in the New York Age. ![]()
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