Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases - Softcover

Wells-Barnett, Ida B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1442923555 ISBN 13: 9781442923553

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant, 2012

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Wells is most famous for her work as a pioneering and tireless antilynching advocate. Her career as an antilynching activist began in earnest in 1892, when three of her male friends were lynched in Memphis. (These victims—Cal McDowell, Thomas Moss, and Will Stewart—were only three of the 161 African-Americans who would be lynched in the United States in 1892 alone.) Wells, who was in the North at the time of the murders, wrote scathing articles about the tragedy for the Memphis Free Speech, the anti-segregation newspaper for which she served as a co-editor. In these writings, Wells fiercely decried the notion that African-American men were lynched because of their supposed propensity for raping white women. Wells knew of few sexual connections between black men and white women, she affirmed, and the majority of those which she had heard of had been sought out and initiated by white women themselves. So enraged were local whites about Wells’s articles that they destroyed the Free Press’ office, and Wells’s friends and relatives warned her not return to the South, for fear that she, too, would be lynched. Having become a “journalist in exile,” Wells published numerous works about lynching, including Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1892) and A Red Record (1895), in which she used meticulous research and extensive statistics to reveal the reality of, and explode the myths surrounding, lynching. She also embarked on an ambitious and exhausting speaking tour, in which she traveled throughout the United States and the United Kingdom raising public awareness about the horrors of lynching. Among her many speeches was her address “Lynch Law In All Its Phases,” delivered at the Baptist Tremont Temple in Boston on February 13, 1893.

About this edition

• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1442923555
• ISBN 13: 9781442923553
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 52