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Mob Rule in New Orleans
This is an impressive, moving, and disturbing account of racial violence and lynchings, with the central part of the story focused on the final fight for his life of Robert …
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
HISTORICAL DOCUMENTThe greater part of what is contained in these pages was published in the New York Age June 25, 1892, in explanation of the editorial which the Memphis whites …
Red Record
In the postbellum American South, lynching was a frightfully common occurrence, perpetrated so frequently that most Southern politicians and leaders turned a blind eye to the …
East St. Louis Massacre
"e;Wells...provided damning descriptions of the melee that claimed one too many black lives."e; -Concrete Demands: The Search for Black Power in the 20th Century …
On Lynchings
Though the end of the Civil War brought legal emancipation to African-American people, it is a fact of history that their social oppression continued long after. The most virulent …
UNCHAINED - Powerful & Unflinching Narratives Of Former Slaves: 28 True Life Stories in One Volume
This unique collection consists of the most influential narratives of former slaves and the stories of people who have helped them. With their powerful & unflinching stories, they …
Red Record
In the post-civil war American south, the despicable act of lynching was commonplace and considered to be a form of vigilantism that was used to murder African Americans for …
Lynch Law in Georgia
Ida B. Wells-Barnett published "e;Lynch Law in Georgia"e; on June 20, 1899, to raise public awareness about white racism and violence in the South, particularly with the …
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases is a book written by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, an African American journalist, and civil rights activist. This gruesome history of …
Mob Rule in New Orleans
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) was an American educator, investigative journalist, and leading figure of the civil rights movement. Having been born into slavery in Holly …
Mob Rule in New Orleans
Ida Wells-Barnett was an early 20th century writer who documented some of the effects of Jim Crow in the South at a time when segregation was the norm there.
Southern Horrors - Lynch Law in All Its Phases
In the post-civil war American south, the despicable act of lynching was commonplace and considered to be a form of vigilantism that was used to murder African Americans for …