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On Lynchings (Paperback)
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On Lynchings (Paperback)
Series: Classics in Black Studies
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Though the end of the Civil War brought legal emancipation to
African-American people, it is a fact of history that their social
oppression continued long after. The most virulent form of this
ongoing persecution was the practice of lynching carried out by mob
rule, often as local law enforcement officials looked the other
way. During the 1880s and 1890s, more than 100 African Americans
per year were lynched, and in 1892 alone the toll of murdered men
and women reached a peak of 161. In that awful year, the
twenty-three-year-old Ida B. Wells, the editor of a small newspaper
for blacks in Memphis, Tennessee, raised one lone voice of protest.
In her paper she charged that white businessmen had instigated
three local lynchings against their black competitors. In
retaliation for her outspoken courage a goon-squad of angry whites
destroyed her editorial office and print shop, and she was forced
to flee the South and move to New York City. So began a crusade
against lynching which became the focus of her long, active, and
very courageous life. In New York she began lecturing against the
abhorrent vigilante practice and published her first pamphlet on
the subject called "Southern Horrors". After moving to Chicago and
marrying lawyer Ferdinand Barnett, she continued her campaign,
publishing A Red Record in 1895 and Mob Rule in New Orleans, about
the race riots in that city, in 1900. All three of these documents
are here collected in this work, a shocking testament to cruelty
and the dark American legacy of racial prejudice. Anticipating
possible accusations of distortion, Wells-Barnett was careful to
present factually accurate evidence and she deliberately relied on
southern white sources as well as statistics gathered by the
Chicago Tribune. Using the words of white journalists, she created
a damning indictment of unpunished crimes that was difficult to
dispute since southern white men who had witnessed the appalling
incidents had written the descriptions. Along with her husband she
played an active role in the founding of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Due to her efforts,
the NAACP launched an intensive campaign against lynching after
World War I. Her work remains important to this day not only as a
cry of protest against injustice but also as valuable historical
documentation of terrible crimes that must never be forgotten. This
edition is enhanced by an introduction by Patricia Hill Collins is
an American academic specialising in race, class and gender. She is
a Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University
of Maryland, College Park. She is also the former head of the
Department of African-American Studies at the University of
Cincinnati, and a past President of the American Sociological
Association.
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