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Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases

Author
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Read by
George Easton
Language
English
Length
55 minutes
ISBN
9781787369030
Published
20 January 2024
Imprint
Adelphi Press
  • lynching
  • african american
  • african
  • black culture
  • black heritage
  • discrimination
  • racism
  • salvery
  • equality
  • inequality

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Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett is an exemplary work of investigative reporting and cultural analysis that offers a detailed exploration of the ways in which the unjust and oppressive practices of lynching functioned to maintain the subordination of African Americans throughout the South. Read in English, unabridged.

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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