The book also highlights the courageous efforts of African American activists like Wells-Barnett herself, who risked their lives to speak out against lynching and demand justice for its victims.
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 ...
Southern Horrors Lynch Law in All Its Phases: Large Print By Ida B. Wells- Barnett Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, more commonly known as Ida B. Wells, was an African-American investigative journalist, educator, and an early leader in the Civil ...
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.