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 early figure in the civil rights movement.
"The Red Record" from Ida B. Wells. Ida B. Wells, african-american journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist and sociologist (1863-1931).
The Red Record by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
The red record; Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an early figure in the civil rights movement.
The Red Record tabulates these scenes of brutality in clear, objective statistics, allowing the horrifying facts to speak for themselves.
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Beginning with the emancipation of the Negro, the inevitable result of unbribled power exercised for two and a half centuries, by the white man over the Negro, began to show itself in acts of conscienceless outlawry.
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 ...
The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States: Easyread Edition
Reproduction of the original: The Red Record by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Translates and interprets the Wallam Olum, a Lenni Lenape chronicle of their migration across the North American continent
In some cases, committing no offense at all (other than being Black) was also enough to "trigger" a lynching. The pre-lynching tortures described in this book are nothing short of stomach-turning.
Reproduction of the original: The Red Record by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
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 ...
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.
This pamphlet, along with her 1895 The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States, documented her research on and campaign against lynching.
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.
" The Red Record tabulates these scenes of brutality in clear, objective statistics, allowing the horrifying facts to speak for themselves.
Lynching, the practice of killing people by extrajudicial mob action, occurred in the United States chiefly from the late 18th century through the 1960s.