The Red Record tabulates these scenes of brutality in clear, objective statistics, allowing the horrifying facts to speak for themselves. Alongside the tally, author Ida B. Wells describes actual occurrences of lynching, and enumerates the standard rationalizations for these extrajudicial killings, her original intent for the pamphlet to shame and shock the apathetic public-and spark change.
Reproduction of the original: The Red Record by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States is both modern and readable.
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 novel aimed to make space for one aspect of a crucial discussion about power, violence, and race in the US.
Differentiated book* It has a historical context with research of the time-Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was a true champion in the fight for the preservation of human rights.
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 ...
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.
... Bowling Green, Ky.; June 28, Fayette Franklin, Mitchell, Ga.; July 2, Joseph Johnson, Hiller's Creek, Mo.; July 6, Lewis Bankhead, Cooper, Ala.; July 16, Marion Howard, Scottsville, Ky.; ... 8, Lee Lawrence, Jasper County, Ga.; Nov.
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 - March 25, 1931) was an African-American journalist.