If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race ...
"[...]stake at the intersection of Main and Madison Sts., brand him in the forehead with a hot iron and perform upon him a surgical operation with a pair of tailor's shears.
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Let me give you thanks for your faithful paper on the lynch abomination now generally practiced against colored people in the South.
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition
Activist Ida B. Wells took it upon herself to document this shameful practice and its prevalence throughout the region and, to a lesser extent, the entire country in a series of seminal volumes, including Southern Horrors.
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Activist Ida B. Wells took it upon herself to document this shameful practice and its prevalence throughout the region and, to a lesser extent, the entire country in a series of seminal volumes, including Southern Horrors.
As a writer, Wells-Barnett also used her skills as a journalist to shed light on the conditions of African Americans throughout the South. We formatted the book for an easy reading experience if you enjoy historic classic literary work
With those words, Ida B. Wells prefaces her searing work, "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.
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Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases is a pamphlet which documented research on a lynching.
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 - March 25, 1931) was an African-American journalist.
The south was full of turmoil and this book has a lot to tell in a small format. The book details the outlandish nature of the crimes against the men and women identified.
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 ...
They know the men of the section of the country who refuse this are not so desirous of punishing rapists as they pretend. The utterances of the leading white men show that with them it is not the crime but the class.
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Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 - March 25, 1931) was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and an early leader in the civil rights movement.
The epidemic of lynching that gripped the American South in the decades after the Civil War and the end of slavery has been glossed over and understated in many history books.
The epidemic of lynching that gripped the American South in the decades after the Civil War and the end of slavery has been glossed over and understated in many history books.