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.

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