Ida B. Wells-Barnett's powerful anti-lynching treatise which details the gruesome and appalling racist violence in the Southern United States in the 1890s, as well as mounting a strong and closely argued denunciation of lynching, as well as revealing the complicity of the press in these terrible crimes against humanity. Essential reading for anyone interested in the social history of the USA and the experiences of African Americans.
Reproduction of the original: The Red Record by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Read & Co. History is proudly republishing this classic work now in a brand new edition complete with introductory chapters by Irvine Garland Penn and T. Thomas Fortune.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an anti-lynching activist who went to white newspaper accounts to gather a list of all documented lynchings during that year.
The Afro-Americans of Memphis denounced the lynching of three of their best citizens, and urged and waited for the authorities to act in the matter and bring the lynchers to justice. No attempt was made to do so, and the black men left ...
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" The Red Record tabulates these scenes of brutality in clear, objective statistics, allowing the horrifying facts to speak for themselves.
In the 1890s, Wells documented lynching in the United States in articles and through her pamphlets called Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in all its Phases, and The Red Record, investigating frequent claims of whites that lynchings were ...
In this new edition Jacqueline Jones Royster sheds light on the specific events, such as the yellow fever epidemic, that spurred Wells’s progression towards activism.
Differentiated book* It has a historical context with research of the time-The Red Record by Ida B. Wells-Barnett.This book contains a historical context, where past events or the study and narration of these events are examined.
Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader Ida B. Wells Mia Bay, Henry Louis Gates. ARTICLES ON THE MISSISSIPPI FLOOD Wells - Barnett's most ambitious publications from the 1920s are the following series of articles on the Mississippi Flood ...