The Red Record / Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States
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A shocking and powerful account of lynching written by activist, journalist, and former slave Ida B. Wells In the postbellum American South, lynching was a frightfully common occurrence, perpetrated so frequently that most Southern politicians and leaders turned a blind eye to the practice. This vicious form of vigilante “justice” was in truth a thinly veiled racist justification for murderous violence. In 1892 alone, more than two hundred African Americans were lynched, with alleged offenses ranging from “attempted stock poisoning” to “insulting whites.” The Red Record tabulates these scenes...
Chapters (18)
- The Red Record:
- Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- 1 THE CASE STATED
- 2 LYNCH-LAW STATISTICS
- 3 LYNCHING IMBECILES
- (An Arkansas Butchery)
- 4 LYNCHING OF INNOCENT MEN
- (Lynched on Account of Relationship)
- 5 LYNCHED FOR ANYTHING OR NOTHING
- (Lynched for Wife Beating)
- 6 HISTORY OF SOME CASES OF RAPE
- 7 THE CRUSADE JUSTIFIED
- (Appeal from America to the World)
- 8 MISS WILLARD'S ATTITUDE
- 9 LYNCHING RECORD FOR 1894
- 10 THE REMEDY
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