Mob Rule in New Orleans

Name: Mob Rule in New Orleans
Author: Ida B. Wells-Barnett
ISBN: 9781787365605

Author: Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Series: African Library
Language: English
Length: 66 pages
ISBN: 9781787365605
Published: 20 January 2023
Imprint: Sovereign

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett's work on "Mob Rule in New Orleans" is a seminal examination of the dynamics of racial violence and lynching during the Jim Crow Era. Through her meticulous research and critical analysis, Wells-Barnett illuminates how mob rule functioned as an extrajudicial form of racial terror, providing the impetus to challenge oppressive structures of white supremacy.

Author

Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, taught school, and then wrote for the Memphis press until a mob destroyed her office. Southern Horrors and The Red Record treat lynching as a documented crime: names, dates, a refusal to look polite. She worked from Chicago, helped found the NAACP, and kept the facts in public. Courage, in her case, had footnotes. The sentences are calm. The evidence is not.

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