The Red Record

Name: The Red Record
Author: Ida B. Wells-Barnett
ISBN: 9781787365490

Author: Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Series: African Library
Language: English
Length: 102 pages
ISBN: 9781787365490
Published: 18 January 2023
Imprint: Sovereign

lynching
african american
african
black culture
black heritage
discrimination
racism
salvery
equality
inequality

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The Red Record by Ida B. Wells-Barnett is a seminal work of investigative journalism and anti-lynching activism that has had a lasting impact on the civil rights movement in the United States. It was one of the first comprehensive documents to expose the frequency of lynchings, as well as their devastating effects on Black communities. The text itself provides an extensive historical account of this form of racial violence, as well as a powerful counterargument against racism and racial subjugation.

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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