Ida B. Wells responded to the question of race relations by documenting the lynchings taking place in the United States. This was usually done by white mobs who claimed they were lynching blacks because of criminal acts they had done, although Ida B. Wells said this was more due to if there was a sense of competition between African-Americans and White Americans, which the whites did not want to see happen as it threatened their society and the institution of slavery in general.
