Ida B Wells-Barnett
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Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett is an exemplary work of investigative reporting and cultural analysis that offers a detailed exploration of the ways in which the unjust and oppressive practices of lynching functioned to maintain the subordination of African Americans throughout the South. Read in English, unabridged.
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"If American conscience were only half alive, if the American church and clergy were only half christianized, if American moral sensibility were not hardened by a persistent infliction of outrage and crime against colored people, a scream of horror, shame and indignation would rise to Heaven wherever your pamphlet shall be read." -Frederick Douglass, to Ida B. Wells-Barnett In 1892, investigative journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett published a pamphlet...
