Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an African-American journalist and activist who dedicated herself to documenting lynching in the United States. Through her writings, she exposed how lynching was often used to control and punish Black individuals, frequently under the guise of rape accusations. She was also a fervent advocate for women's rights and suffrage, establishing several notable women's organizations. Wells was recognized as a skilled and persuasive rhetorician, undertaking international lecture tours to spread her message.
This volume contains a moving and disturbing account of the racial violence and lynchings that occurred in New Orleans around the 1890s, with a particular focus on the famous case of Robert Charles. Highlighting police brutality towards the minorities of New Orleans, this book can be related to the racial violence many people still encounter tod...
Thoroughly appalled and sickened by the rising numbers of white-on-black murders in the South since the beginning of Reconstruction, and by the unwillingness of local, state and federal governments to prosecute those who were responsible, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett wrote Southern Horrors, a pamphlet in which she exposed the horrible reality of lynchings to the rest of the nation and to the world. Wells explained, through case study, how the federal government's failure to intervene allowed Southern states the latitude to slowly but effectively disenfranchise blacks from participating as free men and women in a post-Civil War America with the rights and opportunities guaranteed to all Americans by the Constitution. (Summary by James K. White )
Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States
Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States
Robert Charles and His Fight to Death, the Story of His Life, Burning Human Beings Alive, Other Lynching Statistics