Southern Horrors and Other Writings; The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900

by Ida B. Wells

Paperback, 1996

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Available

Call number

900

Series

Bedford Series in History and Culture (1997)

Genres

Publication

Bedford/St. Martin's (1996), Edition: 1st (first), 240 pages

Description

History. Sociology. True Crime. Nonfiction. HTML: The epidemic of lynching that gripped the American South in the decades after the Civil War and the end of slavery has been glossed over and understated in many history books. Activist Ida B. Wells took it upon herself to document this shameful practice and its prevalence throughout the region and, to a lesser extent, the entire country in a series of seminal volumes, including Southern Horrors..

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LibraryThing member rynk

In Chicago, Ida B. Wells is known as the name behind a housing project, but in her day she was a crusader against alternative facts, specifically the myths that perpetuated lynching. These essays are drawn from her newspaper work, and in turn from the black press and a few mainstream sources, like

the Chicago Tribune, that were not complicit in ignoring the issue. Wells largely builds fact upon fact and lets their weight support her argument. Does this Gilded Age technique still work? We'll soon see.

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