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All the negro asks is justice—a fair and impartial trial in the courts of the country.

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“All the negro asks is justice—a fair and impartial trial in the courts of the country.”

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Wells rejects mob punishment and insists on equal access to lawful trial and ordinary judicial safeguards.

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“Lynch Law in America,” Chicago, January 1900, represented by Lit2Go’s historical speech transcription. The quotation preserves Wells’s period racial terminology because it is part of the primary text; its purpose is an anti-lynching demand for due process, not endorsement of historical vocabulary.

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