Wells had gained extensive recognition and credibility, and an international audience of white supporters of her cause.

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett 

(July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931

She relied heavily on her pamphlet Southern Horrors in her first tour, and showed shocking photographs of actual lynchings in America. 

On May 17, 1894, she spoke in Birmingham at the Young Men's Christian Assembly and at Central Hall, and staying in Edgbaston at 66 Gough Road.^[39]
 
As a result of her two lecture tours in Britain, she received significant coverage in the British and American press.

 Many of the articles published at the time of her return to the United States were hostile personal critiques, rather than reports of her anti-lynching positions and beliefs. The New York Times, for example, called her "a slanderous and nasty-nasty-minded Mulatress."^[40] 

 Despite these attacks in the white press, Wells had nevertheless gained extensive recognition and credibility, and an international audience of white supporters of her cause.