On Lynchings Wells-Barnett Ida B.Paperback
On Lynchings Wells-Barnett Ida B.Paperback The bleak years after the Civil War brought continuing oppression to African Americans. In 1892, Memphis newspaper editor Ida B. During the 1880s and 1890s,…
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On Lynchings Wells-Barnett Ida B.Paperback
The bleak years after the Civil War brought continuing oppression to African Americans. In 1892, Memphis newspaper editor Ida B. During the 1880s and 1890s, more than 100 black citizens were lynched each year.
So began the civil rights pioneer's crusade against lynching.This compilation features Southern Horrors, Wells's first pamphlet on the subject of lynching, as well as its successors, A Red Record and Mob Rule in New Orleans. Wells-Barnett raised a lone voice of protest and was forced to flee for her life. Substantiated by her meticulous research and documentation, these works remain as important to today's historians as they were to the author's original