Gabrielle Goliath, Beloved (Ida), 2024, oil stick & chalk pastel on paper, 88.3 x 71cm
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Ida B. Wells (1862-1931), journalist, educator and anti-lynching activist. Co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and first president of the Negro Fellowship League.
”Our country’s national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob. It represents the cool, calculating deliberation of intelligent people who openly avow that there is an “unwritten law” that justifies them in putting human beings to death without complaint under oath, without trial by jury, without opportunity to make defence, and without right of appeal.” Lynch Law in America (speech), 1900