Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
- ISBN-10
- 1697211844
- ISBN-13
- 9781697211849
- Series
- Southern Horrors
- Pages
- 32
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-10-02
- Author
- Ida Wells-Barnett
Description
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases is a pamphlet which documented research on a lynching. Having examined many accounts of lynching based on the alleged "rape of white women," Wells-Barnett concluded that Southerners concocted rape as an excuse to hide their real reason for lynchings: black economic progress, which threatened not only white Southerners' pocketbooks, but also their ideas about black inferiority.
