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On Lynchings

By Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Book information

Publisher
Courier Corporation
Year
2014
ISBN
0486793648, 9780486793641
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2960285 bytes)
Pages
176\0
Time added
2023-03-02 12:34:18

Description

The bleak years after the Civil War brought continuing oppression to African Americans. During the 1880s and 1890s, more than 100 black citizens were lynched each year. In 1892, Memphis newspaper editor Ida B. Wells-Barnett raised a lone voice of protest and was forced to flee for her life. So began the civil rights pioneer's crusade against lynching. This compilation features Southern Horrors, Wells's first pamphlet on the subject of lynching, as well as its successors, A Red Record and Mob Rule in New Orleans. Substantiated by her meticulous research and documentation, these works remain as important to today's historians as they were to the author's original audience.

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