In its election-eve issue in 1892, perhaps to encourage the exodus that
Ida B. Wells’s campaign had begun, the
Indianapolis Freeman re-printed a drawing by the late political cartoonist,
Henry J. Lewis. A series of frames reminded readers that migration was another form of protest against local and state governments that had failed to punish lynching. The image shows African American men, women, and families in a train station, departing the South. Insets depict whippings, lynching, and pursuit by dogs that help to explain “The Great Southern Exodus.”