On lynchings
Title:
On lynchings
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett.
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Works. Selections
Publication Information:
Bensenville, IL : Lushena Books, [2023]
Physical Description:
168 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781639238903
General Note:
With reproductions of the original title page of each work published in 1892, 1895, and 1900 respectively.
Abstract:
"Following the Civil War, African Americans were still subjected to tyranny. Each year between 1880 and 1890, more than 100 black people were lynched. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, the editor of a Memphis newspaper, was forced to flee for her life in 1892 after raising a lone voice of dissent. So the fight against lynching by the civil rights pioneer got started. This collection includes Wells's first essay on lynching, Southern Horrors, as well as its sequels, A Red Record and Mob Rule in New Orleans. These books, which are supported by her thorough research and evidence, are still vital to historians today just as they were to the author's initial audience."
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Contents:
Southern horrors : lynch law in all its phases (1892) -- A red record : tabulated statistics and alleged causes of lynchings in the United States 1892-1893-1894 (1895) -- Mob rule in New Orleans : Robert Charles and his fight to the death : the story of his life, burning human beings alive, other lynching statistics (1900).