Free Speech - Ida B. Wells

In 1860, he gave a speech in Boston that was attacked by white custodians who were not happy with abolitionist ideas. Frederick Douglass is one of the great heroes of mine. Ida B. Wells sets up a black-owned newspaper in Memphis, Tennessee documenting lynchings and sort of giving the true stories. And she ultimately, her newspaper is burned to the ground and she has to flee because of white mob wants to kill her basically. Women suffragettes in the US were arrested for burning an effigy. So their rights to free speech was being denied. But I think the early pioneers of free speech saw very clearly that you actually need to uphold free speech for extremists