dec 1, 1891 - In the winter in Baltimore, Md., (1891) three white men assaulted Miss Camphor, a young Afro-American girl, while out walking with a young man of her own race.

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They held her escort and raped the girl right in front of the young man she was with. As Ida B. Wells put it, "It was a deed dastardly enough to arouse Southern blood, which gives its horror of rape as excuse for lawlessness, but she was an Afro-American." If this happened to a white woman by a black man, he would've been killed before he was even given a trial. But because the victim is a black woman, no one is rallying up a mob of 1000 people to avenge her. And that hard truth is sad and disheartening on both the white men and especially the black men's part. What's even worse is the case went to the courts, and an Afro-American lawyer defended the men and they were acquitted. A man of her own race, defended the very people who assaulted her and scarred her for life.

Important Note: The purpose of including the rape of an Afro-American woman is to showcase the very stark and alarming difference in response to when black women are raped vs when white women are raped.